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Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre, was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, and political philosopher. He is chiefly remembered as one of the intellectual forefathers of modern conservatism.
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culture · Savoyard political philosopher (1753–1821) · philosopher · politician · writer · historian · diplomat · lawyer · also Joseph de Maistre, Joseph Marie de Maistre, Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre, Joseph de Maistre, Count, Maistre
Born 1 April 1753 · Died 26 February 1821 · Q309854
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That brief, nervous, lucid style, stripped of phrases, robust of limb, did not at all recall the softness of the eighteenth century, nor the declamations of the latest French books: it was born and steeped in the breath of the Alps; it was virgin, it was young, it was harsh and savage; it had no human respect, it felt its solitude; it improvised depth and form all at once ... That man was new among the enfants du siècle [children of the century].
“That brief, nervous, lucid style, stripped of phrases, robust of limb, did not at all recall the softness of the eighteenth century, nor the declamations of the latest French books: it was born and steeped in the breath of the Alps; it was virgin, it was young, it was harsh and savage; it had no human respect, it felt its solitude; it improvised depth and form all at once ... That man was new among the enfants du siècle [children of the century].”
The Christian Century: Joseph de Maistre’s magnum opus is still perplexing after 200 years
Died 1821-02-26.
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To Turin and served there as magistrate and minister of state until his death
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Of his French translation of Plutarch's treatise On the Delay of Divine Justice in the Punishment of the Guilty, Maistre published "On the Pope" in 1819, the most complete exposition of his religious conception of author
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Was sent to Saint Petersburg in Russia as ambassador to Tsar Alexander I
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Born 1753-04-01.
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