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LOUIS DE BONALD: NEGLECTED ANTIMODERN On Divorce Louis de Bonald edited and translated by Nicholas Davidson New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992 Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter Revolutionary Tradition Edited and translated by Christopher Olaf Blum Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2004 The True and Only Wealth of Nations: Essays on Family, Econo my and Society Louis de Bonald translated by Christopher Olaf Blum Naples, FL: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2006 Reviewed by F. Roger Devlin On the European continent, Louis de Bonald has long been named alongside Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre as a foremost first generation critic of the French Revolution and founder of modern conservatism. De Maistre himself, late in life, wrote to Bonald: “I have thought nothing you have not written I have written nothing you have not thought.” But while Burke became the object of a veritable twentiethcentury cult, and de Maistre is at least widely known and available in translation, it was not until 1992 that a work of Bonald’s, viz., On Divorce, finally appeared in English. Christopher Olaf Blum has more recently expanded the English reader’s access to Louis de Bonald with the other two books under re view here. Critics of the Enlightenment contains excerpts from the works of six French counterrevolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century, of whom the largest share (four selections, ninety pages) is allotted to Bonald. The True and Only Wealth of Nations collects nine further pieces of Bonald’s (one hundred fortythree pages), filling in our knowledge of several other aspects of his thought. All these pieces were written between 1802 and 1829, subsequent to On Divorce. A Pro 106 The Occidental Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer