CONSTANS, JEAN ANTOINE French statesman, was born at Beziers on May 3, 1833, and died in Paris on April 7, 1913. He was professor of law at Douai and then at Toulouse until he was elected deputy for the latter city in 1876. He was minister of the interior in the Freycinet cabinet of 188o, and again, during the Boulangist agitation, in the Tirard and Freycinet cabinets (1889-92). He took strong measures against the Boulangists and against the Ligue des Patriotes, and was violently attacked for his action in the press. Constans was am bassador at Constantinople from 1898 to 1907.