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1767 – 1830Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)Died 8 December 1830, aged 63Constant was a Swiss-French political thinker and novelist whose writings on liberty and constitutional government influenced European liberalism. His novel Adolphe and his political essays argued for individual rights against both monarchical absolutism and revolutionary excess. He served briefly in the French Chamber of Deputies after the July Revolution.