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Considerations on France (French: Considérations sur la France) is a 1796 political pamphlet and treatise by the Savoyard philosopher Joseph de Maistre about the ongoing French Revolution. Maistre presents a providential interpretation of the Revolution and argues for a new alliance of throne and altar under a restored Bourbon ...
The publication of Considérations sur la France early in 1797 announced the appearance of a formidable ideological opponent of the French Revolution. Just as Augustine had affirmed the providential governance of events amid the ruins of the Roman world, so Joseph de Maistre proclaimed
General Considerations. It is common fallacy nowadays to insist on the danger of counter-revolution in order to show that we should not return to the monarchy. A great number of works designed to persuade the French to hold fast to the Republic are only developments of this idea. The authors of these works stress the evils inseparable from ...
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter Vi
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
We are all attached to the throne of the Supreme Being by a supple chain that restrains us without enslaving us. Nothing is more admirable in the universal order of things than the action of free b...
Every nation, like every individual, has received a mission that it must fulfil. France exercises over Europe a veritable magistracy that it would be useless to contest and that she has most culpab...
Unhappily, history proves that war is, in a certain sense, the habitual state of mankind, which is to say that human blood must flow without interruption somewhere or other on the globe, and that f...
Evil has nothing in common with life; it cannot create, since its power is purely negative. Evil is the schism of being; it is not true.
Either every imaginable institution is founded on a religious concept or it is only a passing phenomenon. Institutions are strong and durable to the degree that they are, so to speak, deified. Not...
I have spoken of one basic characteristics of true legislators. Another very remarkable feature, on which it would be easy to write a book, is that they are never what are called scholars: they do...
A legislator resembles the Creator by not working all the time; he creates and then he rests. All true legislative action has its Sabbath, and intermittence is its distinctive characteristic.
The art of the legislator is not to make a people free, but free enough.Do not listen to the reasoners; there has been too much reasoning in France, and reasoning has banished reason. Put aside your fears and reservations, and trust the infallible instinct of your cons...I am a perfect stranger to France, which I have never seen, and I expect nothing from her king, whom I shall never know.What are we, weak and blind human beings! And what is that flickering light we call Reason? When we have calculated all the probabilities, questioned history, satisfied every doubt and special inte...Enthusiasm and fanaticism are not lasting phenomena. Human nature soon tires of this kind of ecstasy. […] The peak of the fever having subsided, great outbursts of enthusiasm are always followed by...
Almost all errors spring from the misuse of words.In order to bring about the French Revolution, it was necessary to overthrow religion, outrage morality, violate every propriety, and commit every crime. This diabolical work required the employmen...3. Nov. 1994 · Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France is the best known French equivalent of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. This new edition of Richard...
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5. Juni 2012 · Considerations on France; 1 Of Revolutions; 2 Reflections on the Ways of Providence in the French Revolution; 3 On the Violent Destruction of the Human Species; 4 Can the French Republic Last? 5 The French Revolution Considered in its Antireligious Character; 6 On Divine Influence in Political Constitutions
5. Juni 2012 · Considerations on France; 1 Of Revolutions; 2 Reflections on the Ways of Providence in the French Revolution; 3 On the Violent Destruction of the Human Species; 4 Can the French Republic Last? 5 The French Revolution Considered in its Antireligious Character; 6 On Divine Influence in Political Constitutions
