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Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald was born at Le Monna, near Millau in Aveyron, France on the 2nd of October 1754.
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Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald was born at Le Monna, near Millau in Aveyron, France on the 2nd of October 1754.
He was educated at the Oratorian college at Juilly.
Disliking the principles of the Revolution, Bonald emigrated in 1791, joined the army of the prince of Conde, and soon afterwards settled at Heidelberg. There he wrote his first important work, the highly conservative Theorie du pouvoir politique et religieux (3 vols. , 1796; new ed. , Paris, 1854, 2 vols. ), which was condemned by the Directory. Returning to France he found himself an object of suspicion, and was obliged to live in retirement. In 1806 he was associated with Chateaubriand and Fievee in the conduct of the Mercure de France, and two years later was appointed councillor of the Imperial University which he had often attacked. From 1815 to 1822 sat in the chamber as deputy. His speeches were on the extreme conservative side; he even advocated a literary censorship. In 1822 he was made minister of state, and presided over the censorship commission. In the following year he was made a peer, a dignity which he lost through refusing to take the oath in 1830. He took no part in public affairs after 1830, but retired to his seat at Le Monna, where he died on the 23rd of November 1840.
Bonald was one of the leading writers of the theocratic or traditionalist school, which included de Maistre, Lamennais, Ballanche and d'Eckstein. His writings are mainly on social and political philosophy, and are based ultimately on one great principle, the divine origin of language. Many fruitful thoughts are scattered among his works, but his system scarcely deserves the name of a philosophy. In abstract thought he was a mere dilettante, and his strengthlay in the vigour and sincerity of his statements rather than in cogency of reasoning.
Besides his Theorie, the vicomte de Bonald published Essai analytique sur les lois naturelles de l'ordre social (1800); Legislation primitive (1802); Du divorce considere au XIXe siecle (1801); Recherches philosophiques sur les premiers objets de connaissances morales (2 vols. , 1818); Melanges littéraires et politiques, demonstration philosophique du principe constitutif de la societe (1819, 1852). The first collected edition appeared in 12 vols. , 1817–1819; the latest is that of the Abbe Migne (3 vols. , 1859).
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The first language contained the essence of all truth. From this Bonald deduces the existence of God, the divine origin and consequent supreme authority of the Holy Scriptures, and the infallibility of the church. While this thought lies at the root of all his speculations there is a formula of constant application. All relations may be stated as the triad of cause, means and effect, which he sees repeated throughout nature. Thus, in the universe, he finds the first cause as mover, movement as the means, and bodies as the result; in the state, power as the cause, ministers as the means, and subjects as the effects; in the family, the same relation is exemplified by father, mother and children. These three terms bear specific relations to one another; the first is to the second as the second to the third. Thus, in the great triad of the religious world - God, the Mediator, and Man - God is to the God - Man as the God - Man is to Man. On this basis he constructed a system of political absolutism which lacks two things only: well-grounded premisses instead of baseless hypotheses, and the acquiescence of those who were to be subjected to it. Bonald's style is remarkably fine; ornate, but pure and vigorous.
Quotations:
"L'homme pense sa parole avant de parler sa pensée. "
"Monarchy considers man in his ties with society; a republic considers man independently of his relations to society. "
"There was geometry in the world before Newton, and philosophy before Descartes, but before language there was absolutely nothing but bodies and their images, because language is the necessary instrument of every intellectual operation — nay, the means of every moral existence. "
"Man thinks his word before he speaks his thought, or, in other words, man cannot speak his thought without thinking his word. "
"The deist is a man who in his short existence has not had time to become an atheist. "
From 1816 he had been a member of the French Academy.
He had four sons. Of these, Victor de Bonald (1780–1871) followed his father in his exile, was rector of the academy of Montpellier after the restoration, but lost his post during the Hundred Days. Regaining it at the second restoration, he resigned finally in 1830. He wrote Des vrais principes opposes aux erreurs du XIXe siecle (1833), Moise et les geologues modernes (1835), and a life of his father. Louis Jacques Maurice (1787–1870), cardinal (1841), was condemned by the council of state for a pastoral letter attacking Dupin the elder's Manuel de droit ecclésiastique. In 1848 he held a memorial service “for those who fell gloriously in defence of civil and religious liberty. ” In 1851 he nevertheless advocated in the senate the maintenance of the temporal power of Rome by force of arms. Henri (d. 1846) was a contributor to legitimist journals; and Rene was interim prefect of Aveyron in 1817.