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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 ...
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 Lebrun's 1974 translation is introduced by Isaiah Berlin, with a bibliography and chronology by the translator.
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
Recall the great assemblies, Robespierre’s speech against the priesthood, the solemn apostasy of the clergy, the desecration of objects of worship, the installation of the goddess of reason, and that multitude of extraordinary actions by which the provinces sought to outdo Paris.
3 de nov. de 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...
5 de jun. de 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
6 de mar. de 2019 · Considerations on France. by. Maistre, Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821. Publication date. 1974. Topics. France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes, France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799. Publisher. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press.
