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Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, is one of the great French counter-Revolutionary conservative thinkers. For an overview of his life, see “Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald,” here at Counter-Currents.

F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | Comments closed

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Remembering Louis de Bonald:
October 2, 1754–November 23, 1840

Greg Johnson

Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right: Read more …

Published: October 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, the French Revolution | Comments closed

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Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce

F. Roger Devlin

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Louis de Bonald
On Divorce
Translated and edited by Nicholas Davidson
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992

On the European continent, Louis de Bonald has long been named alongside Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre as a foremost first generation critic of the French Revolution and founder of modern conservatism. Read more …

Published: June 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, divorce, family, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, North American New Right, On Divorce, political philosophy, reprints | Comments closed

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Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald

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Louis de Bonald, 1754–1840

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The French statesman, writer, and philosopher, Louis Vicomte de Bonald belongs to the theologist school of the Traditionalists. Bonald was born on October 2nd, 1754 at Monna, near Millau a town in the Rouergue region (Aveyron) of southern France, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Oratorian Collège de Juilly. As an aristocrat, military service was expected, so in 1773 he joined the king’s musketeers. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, commemorations, conservatism, North American New Right, reprints, the French Revolution | Comments closed

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Bonald’s Economic Thought

F. Roger Devlin

Jean-François Millet, "Spring," 1868–1873

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The French Age of Enlightenment witnessed and celebrated an economic revolution: the rapid growth of speculation and a money economy, and a corresponding diminution in the importance of landed wealth. Bonald believed that the change had been brought about by the practice of usury. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adam Smith, argrarianism, aristocracy, articles, capitalism, economics, F. Roger Devlin, guilds, North American New Right, reprints, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

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Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility

F. Roger Devlin

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Unlike Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald devoted little space to analyzing the French Revolution itself. His focus instead was on understanding the traditional society which had been swept away. His review of Mme. de Staël’s Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, e.g., ends up turning into a theory of the nobility and its function. Bonald scholar Christopher Olaf Blum calls this “his most original contribution to the theory of the counter-revolution.”

Juan Donoso Cortés

Julius Evola

Juan Donoso Cortés, marqués de Valdegamas, 1809–1853

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Along with Count Joseph de Maistre and Viscount Louis de Bonald, Juan Donoso Cortés, the Marquis of Valdegamas, is part of the triad of the great counter-revolutionary thinkers of the 19th century whose message is still relevant today. In Italy, those aspects of Donoso Cortés’ teachings that are most important in our eyes are hardly known.