Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852) was a French military man.
When he was arrested in Turin after a duel, in 1790, he started travelling in his room. The account of his experiences are recorded in his book A Journey Around My Room (ISBN 1843910993).
His work is mentioned in British author Alain De Botton's book The Art of Travel (2002, ISBN 0375420827).
External links
Xavier de Maistre in the 1911 Encyclopedia (http://1.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MA/MAISTRE_XAVIER_DE.htm)
DeMaistre argued for the restoration of hereditary monarchy, which he regarded as a divinely sanctioned institution, and for the supreme authority of the Pope in both religious and political matters.
DeMaistre considered the Revolution of 1789 as a Providential occurrence: the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the whole of the old French society, instead of using the powerful influence of French civilization to benefit mankind, had instead promoted the destructive atheistic doctrines of the eighteenth-century philosophers.
The shedding of blood, the expiation of the sins of the guilty by the innocent is for deMaistre a law as mysterious as it is indubitable, the principle that propels humanity in its return to God and the explanation for the existence and the perpetuity of war.
JOSEPH DEMAISTRE (1754-1821), French diplomatist and polemical writer, was born at Chambery on the 1st of April 1754.
Joseph deMaistre was one of the most powerful, and by far the ablest, of the leaders of the neo-Catholic and anti-revolutionary movement.
Unlike his contemporary Bonald, Joseph deMaistre regarded the temporal monarchy as an institution of altogether inferior importance to the spiritual primacy of the pope.
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