Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise de Bonald

Louis -Gabriel -Ambroise de Bonald, Vicomte de (* October 2, 1754 in Château le Monna near Millau in Aveyron, † November 23, 1840 ) was a French statesman and philosopher. In his political theory works Bonald represented a political and ecclesiastical conservatism and became so beside Joseph de Maistre (1754-1821) to a thought leader in the ultra-royalists during the Bourbon Restoration ( 1814-1830 ).

Life

Background and education

Louis -Gabriel -Ambroise de Bonald " came from an old French family landed gentry in the southern province of Rouergue ". In 1769, he joined the Brotherhood, led by the Catholic Oratorian College in Juilly, one in the 18th century by the French nobility preferred boarding school east of Paris. From 1774 until its dissolution in 1776 he graduated from the end of military training at the Musketeers. Then he married on February 22, 1778 Elisabeth -Marguerite de Guibal Combescure ( born July 30, 1754 Vigan ), the daughter of the cavalry officer in the Régiment de la Reine de Combescures Henri and Marguerite Rolland († January 21, 1826 in Château le Monna ). His son, Louis -Jacques- Maurice de Bonald (1787-1870) was a cardinal.

Political career

On June 6, 1785 Bonald was - despite his relatively young age - for mayor of his hometown of Millau elected. 1790, a year after the outbreak of the French Revolution, which concluded in the course of administrative restructuring of France as President at the head of the department of Aveyron. As a result, the Constitution civile du clergé with the subsequent persecution of the state Silk defiant priest he resigned on January 31, 1791 and went a short time later with his two older brothers to Heidelberg to join the counter-revolutionary émigrés army of the Prince of Condé. In 1797 he returned to France, but refused to accept any office in the Empire. In 1815 he was an emissary of the ultra-royalists. He represented following a pronounced Family and authority policy with the goal of reunification of church and state. With the Reformation rebellion and individualism came into the world, modernity was decline. " The restoration marks the peak of his career: in 1816 the Viscount is added to the Académie française, appointed 1823 Pair de France has been delegated to him the line of censorship, but in 1830, with the Revolution of July, it's all over, he refuses to. .. to make oath of allegiance to the new order, and loses the censor and all pensions., the citizen King Louis Philippe is it a contemptible figure. the rest is retreat. "

Work and style

De Bonald published numerous books and essays on the state, law, society, religion, philosophy and literature. My motivation was disappointment with the results of the French Revolution. But: "Anyone who imagines a man under a reactionary who scolds foaming at the mouth on the present, here you are wrong ," writes Andreas Dorschel. " De Bonald is a thinker extreme clarté. The nebulous he allows no room in his prose. ".

Writings

  • Oeuvres completes, 15 Bde Paris from 1817 to 1843, reprint 1982 Genève, ISBN 2-05-100379-3
  • Théorie du pouvoir politique et société civile dans la RELIGIEUX (1796 )
  • Essai sur les lois naturelles Analytique de l' ordre Social ( 1800)
  • You divorce considere au XIXe siècle (1801 )
  • Législation primitive (1802 )
  • Pensées sur divers sujets (1817 )
  • Recherches sur les premiers philosophiques objets of connaissances morales (1818 )
  • Réflexions sur l' interet général de l'Europe (1815 )
  • Observations sur un ouvrage de Madame de Staël (1818 )
  • Mélanges littéraires, politiques et philosophiques (1819 )
  • Démonstration Philosophique du principe de la société constitutif (1820 )
  • Législation primitive considérée par les lumières de la raison (1821 )
  • Opinion sur la loi relative à la censure of journaux (1821 )
  • De la chrétienté et du christianisme (1825 )
  • De la famille agricole et de la famille industrial (1826 )
  • Discours sur la vie de Jésus-Christ (1834 )
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