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Translations into English by date of last publication

        Previously published texts:

  • An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon. Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy are Treated, ed. and trans. Richard Allen Lebrun (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998).
  • Against Rousseau: ‘On the State of Nature’ and ‘On the Sovereignty of the People’, ed. and trans. Richard Allen Lebrun (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996).
  • Petersburg Dialogues, or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence [contains ‘Enlightenment on Sacrifices’], ed. and trans. Richard Allen Lebrun (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1993).
  • The Pope, trans. Aeneas McD. Dawson (1850). Reprinted with an introduction by Richard A. Lebrun (New York: Howard Fertig, 1975).
  • Letters on the Spanish Inquisition, trans. Aeneas McD. Dawson (Delmas, New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1977 [1843]).
  • Considerations on France, ed. and trans. Richard Allen Lebrun (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 [Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1974]).

        Original texts:

  • Address of the Mayor of Montagnole, Jean-Claude Têtu
  • ‘The Administration of Justice’
  • Benefits of the French Revolution
  • ‘Dialogue on freedom of the press’ (unsigned)
  • Discourse for Madam de Costa
  • Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (trans. Laurence M. Porter)
  • ‘Essay on the Planets’
  • Five Letters on Public Education in Russia
  • Five Paradoxes for Madam la Marquise de Nav…
  • Four Chapters on Russia
  • Fragments on France (with two “drafts” of a Fifth Savoyard Letter)
  • ‘The French Parlements’
  • On the Gallican Church
  • Letters of a Savoyard Royalist
  • Memoir on Freemasonry
  • Memoir on the Liberty of Public Instruction
  • Memoir on the Union of Savoy and Switzerland
  • The Outward Character of the Magistrate
  • Reflections on Protestantism
  • Speech of Citizen Cherchemot
  • On Virtue
  • Letter to M. le Marquis … on the Secular Feast of the Protestants
  • Letter to M. le Marquis … on the State of Christianity in Europe
  • Letter to a Protestant Lady
  • Letter to a Russian Lady
  • Observations on the Prospectus Disciplicinarum or Plan of Study proposed for the Newsky Seminary by Professor Kessler
  • ‘Venality of Office in a Monarchy’

        END OF COLLECTED WORKS

  • On the Pope [1819]. ‘Preliminary Discourse’, ‘The Objectives of the Popes in Their Struggles with European Sovereigns’ and ‘The Popes and Civil Liberty’; ‘Reflections on Protestantism in its Relations to Sovereignty [1798]’, in Critics of the Enlightenment. Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition, ed. and trans. Christopher Olaf Blum with a foreword by Philippe Bénéton (Wilmington, DL: ISI Book-Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2003).
  • ‘Study on Sovereignty’, Nations and Identities. Classic Readings, ed. Vincent P. Pecora (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).
  • ‘Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and of Other Human Institutions’, An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present, ed. Jerry Z. Muller (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
  • Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, ed. Charles M. Lombard (Delmar, N.Y., 1977).
  • The Works of Joseph de Maistre, trans. Jack Lively (New York: Macmillian Company, 1965). Contains selections ofConsiderations on France, Enlightenment on Sacrifices, The Pope, The Saint Petersburg Dialogues, and Study on Sovereignty.
  • On God and Society. Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitution and other Human Institutions, trans. Elisha Greifer in collaboration with Laurence M. Porter (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1959).
  • The Pope Considered in His Relations with the Church, Temporal Sovereignties, Separated Churches, and the Cause of Civilization, trans. Rev. Aeneas McDonnell Dawson (London: C. Dolman, 1850).
  • Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (Boston: Little & Brown, 1847).
  • Letters on the Spanish Inquisition. A Rare Work, and the Best which Has ever Appeared on the Subject, ed. and trans. Thomas J. O’Flaherty (Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1843).
  • On the Pope [1819]. ‘Preliminary Discourse’, ‘The Objectives of the Popes in Their Struggles with European Sovereigns’ and ‘The Popes and Civil Liberty’; ‘Reflections on Protestantism in its Relations to Sovereignty [1798]’, in Critics of the Enlightenment. Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition, ed. and trans. Christopher Olaf Blum with a foreword by Philippe Bénéton (Wilmington, DL: ISI Book-Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2003).
  • ‘Study on Sovereignty’, Nations and Identities. Classic Readings, ed. Vincent P. Pecora (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).
  • ‘Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and of Other Human Institutions’, An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present, ed. Jerry Z. Muller (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
  • Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, ed. Charles M. Lombard (Delmar, N.Y., 1977).
  • The Works of Joseph de Maistre, trans. Jack Lively (New York: Macmillan Company, 1965). Contains selections ofConsiderations on France, Enlightenment on Sacrifices, The Pope, The Saint Petersburg Dialogues, and Study on Sovereignty.
  • On God and Society. Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and other Human Institutions, trans. Elisha Greifer in collaboration with Laurence M. Porter (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1959).
  • The Pope Considered in His Relations with the Church, Temporal Sovereignties, Separated Churches, and the Cause of Civilization, trans. Rev. Aeneas McDonnell Dawson (London: C. Dolman, 1850). 
  • Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (Boston: Little & Brown, 1847).
  • Letters on the Spanish Inquisition. A Rare Work, and the Best which Has ever Appeared on the Subject, ed. and trans. Thomas J. O’Flaherty (Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1843).