It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
"Joseph-Marie, Count/comte de Maistre" was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, freemason and diplomat. He defended Social hierarchy/hierarchical societies and a Monarchy/monarchical State in the period immediately following the French Revolution. Maistre was a subject of the Kingdom of Sardinia/King of Piedmont-Sardinia, whom he served as member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817), and minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821).
Maistre, a key figure of the Counter-Enlightenment, saw monarchy both as a Divine right of kings/divinely sanctioned institution and as the only stable form of government. He called for the restoration of the House of Bourbon to the throne of France and argued that the Pope should have ultimate authority in temporal matters. Maistre also claimed that it was the rationalism/rationalist rejection of Christianity which was directly responsible for the disorder and bloodshed which followed the French Revolution of 1789.
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