[1]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 [2],” here at Counter-Currents.
F. Roger Devlin has written several pieces assessing Bonald’s contribution to the North American New Right:
- “Louis de Bonald’s On Divorce [3].”
- “Bonald’s Economic Thought [4].”
- “Bonald’s Theory of the Nobility [5].”
Several English translations of Bonald are currently available:
Louis de Bonald
The True & Only Wealth of Nations: Essays on Family, Economy, & Society [6]
Translated by Christopher Olaf Blum
Naples, Fla.: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2006
Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition [7]
Edited and translated by Christopher Olaf Blum
Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2004
Louis de Bonald
On Divorce [8]
Translated and edited by Nicholas Davidson
New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992
