St Petersburg Dialogues
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AuthorJoseph de Maistre
OriginaltitleLes Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg
TranslatorRichard Lebrun
LanguageFrench
 Title page of volume one | |
| Author | Joseph de Maistre |
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| Original title | Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg |
| Translator | Richard Lebrun |
| Language | French |
| Genre | dialogue |
| Publisher | Librairie grecque, latine et française |
Publication date | 1821 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1993 |
| Part of a series on |
| Conservatism in France |
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St Petersburg Dialogues: or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence (French: Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, ou Entretiens sur le Gouvernement Temporel de la Providence) is an 1821 book by the Savoyard diplomat and philosopher Joseph de Maistre.
In a series of dialogues, three characters, called the Count, the Senator and the Chevalier, meet in Saint Petersburg and explore a range of subjects related to theodicy, punishment and epistemology. The book argues that the continuous blood sacrifice of men is a constant and fundamental law in all of human life and society.[1][2][3]
