Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez

Unlike his compatriots Benjamin Constant and Jean de Sismondi, Cherbuliez has had little attention from contemporary historians.

He was though granted recognition: member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of Institut de France, and holder of academic distinctions.

[2] Born into a middle-class family, he studied at the Collège de Genève, then the École Polytechnique in Paris, and the theological faculty in Geneva.

Two books which gained a reputation were Théorie des garanties constitutionnelles of 1838, and Riche ou pauvre (1840).

Elected to the 1842 Constituent Assembly, he was hostile to democratic reform, his views being expressed in the book De la démocratie en Suisse.