Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque , or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. He was the author of a partly biographical psychological novel, Adolphe. He was a fervent classical liberal of the early 19th century, who influenced the Trienio Liberal movement in Spain, the Liberal Revolution of 1820 in Portugal, the Greek War of Independence, the November Uprising in Poland, the Belgian Revolution, and liberalism in Brazil and Mexico. Wikipedia
“I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.”
Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.
A. Hayward, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction.
