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en-wikipedia-org-7952		Joseph de Maistre - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6074	972	68	Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre (French: [də mɛstʁ];[a] 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821)[2] was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution.[3] Despite his close personal and intellectual ties with France, Maistre was throughout his life a subject of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which he served as a member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817)[4] and minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821).[5] Deciding that he could not support the French-controlled regime, Maistre departed again, this time for Lausanne, Switzerland,[19] where he discussed politics and theology at the salon of Madame de Staël, and began his career as a counter-revolutionary writer,[20] with works such as Lettres d'un Royaliste Savoisien ("Letters from a Savoyard Royalist", 1793), Discours à Mme. la Marquise Costa de Beauregard, sur la Vie et la Mort de son Fils ("Discourse to the Marchioness Costa de Beauregard, on the Life and Death of her Son", 1794) and Cinq paradoxes à la Marquise de Nav...	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7952.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7952.txt