E, com efeito, em minha opiniao, a chave de toda organizacao politica (
CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, 1815a:34--traducao livre).
Henri-Benjamin
Constant de Rebecque (25 October 1767-8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion.
F or simplicity's sake, I shall call them "Belle" and "Constant," though in her letters she addresses him as "Monsieur," or refers to him as "d'Hermenches," and he, in a swift assertion of intimacy, calls her "Agn[grave{e}]s." Her full name was Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll von Serooskerchen; his was David-Louis, Baron de
Constant de Rebecque, Seigneur d'Hermenches et de Villars-Mendraz.
She inspired, in part, her Don - Juan - like lover, the Swiss novelist Benjamin
Constant de Rebecque, to write his Adolphe.
(1815) A novel by Benjamin
Constant de Rebecque. Adolphe, the novel's young protagonist, has been influenced by his early relationship with a woman of strong intellectual convictions and is unable to adopt the conventional masks of society.