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Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (April 1, 1753- February 26, 1821) was a French-speaking Savoy lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was one of the most influential spokesmen for a counter-revolutionary and authoritarian conservatism in the period immediately following the French Revolution of 1789. Despite his close personal and intellectual ties to France, de Maistre remained throughout his life a subject of the King of Sardinia, whom he served as member of the Savoy Senate (1787-1792)... full article at wikipedia

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