Une admiration et ses limites Maistre dans la postérité de Bossuet ?

For Joseph de Maistre, Bossuet was “the last and first of the Church Fathers.” Bossuet was his inspiration as regards royal sovereignty, the action of Providence, and the danger of Protestantism; but his thinking about the post-revolutionary world led him to wish for an absolute monarchy and to repudiate any weakness for Gallicanism and Jansenism.