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Joseph de Maistre
Savoyard diplomat, magistrate and counter-revolutionary political philosopher
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Joseph de Maistre was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat and political philosopher, born in Chambery in 1753. He served as a magistrate and senator in the Savoy Senate from 1787 to 1792, was ambassador of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the Russian Empire from 1803 to 1817, and then minister of state at the court in Turin. A leading voice of counter-revolutionary thought, he wrote Considerations on France (1796), Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1809) and On the Pope (1819). St Petersburg Dialogues appeared after his death in 1821.
Born1753-1821 · Chambery, Savoy
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Considerations on FranceEssay on the Generative Principle of Political ConstitutionsOn the PopeSt Petersburg Dialogues
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