Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand was one of the main figures of Romanticism. His weight in the sphere of romantic literature is undeniable, yet some have argued that his political ideas are not consistent throughout his career, changing and adapting to different needs over time. This study focusses on Chateaubriand as a politician rather than a writer. He expresses solid and coherent thinking in the articles published in the French newspaper Le Conservateur (1818-1820). The historical and political context in which these articles were published was extremely complex, as these were the first years of the French Restoration, a time of many opposing political parties with ideas and views that easily passed from one to another. Chateaubriand tried to unify the different ideas and viewpoints, bringing them together into modern constitutionalism, known today as the system of Constitutional Monarchy. Chateaubriand never shied away from religion, monarchy and tradition, but managed to improve and enrich the Royalist Party by introducing the new doctrines of modern constitutionalism. He preached the advantages of freedom of the press, freedom of opinion or speech, and local freedom, while extending the right to vote and division of powers. Due to the political climate during his time, Chateaubriand’s ideas and opinions were mostly rejected, not only by the dominant oligarchies, but especially by his own party, whose members argued that his ideas were too liberal. For these reasons, Chateaubriand can be considered as a liberal-conservative.

This article explores the conceptual history of political ideas developed by Pierre Rosanvallon throughout his epistemological and historiographical works. After placing his contributions within the debate on intellectual history and the temporality of political concepts, we show how Rosanvallon applied his methodological digressions to examining the constitutive principles of the French democracy. In this way, we find that his works range from the recognition of the undecidability of the paradoxes of modernity, to the establishment of a set of requirements that define the best governmental regime.

ricanas de Camba, y poner por escrito las reflexiones sociológicas que a nosotros (a nosotros particularmente) nos inspiran.Y llamar la atención de los de nuestro oficio sobre esa mina de oro sociológica que es Julio Camba, que permanece abandonada (cuando no ignorada) por los sociólogos ibéricos e iberoamericanos que deberíamos explotarla. ***En su crónica titulada "Las dos tendencias", enviada desde New York y luego compilada en su libro Un año en el otro mundo, donde la leo, Camba nos dice: Tiempo atrás, yo he hablado de las dos tendencias fundamentales que hay en la vida de este país: una tendencia idealista y