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Xavier de Maistre

Born

in Chambéry, Savoy, Kingdom of Piemont-Sardinia, now Department of Savoie, France

January 01, 1763

Died

June 12, 1852

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Xavier de Maistre of Savoy (at the time, a region of the Kingdom of Sardinia), lived largely as a military man, but is known as a French writer. The younger brother of noted philosopher and counter-revolutionary Joseph de Maistre, Xavier was born to an aristocratic family at Chambéry in October 1763. He served when young in the Kingdom of Sardinia army, and wrote his fantasy, Voyage autour de ma chambre (Journey Around My Room, published 1794) when he was under arrest in Turin as the consequence of a duel.

Xavier shared the politics and the loyalty of his brother, and after a French revolutionary army annexed Savoy to France in 1792, he left the service, and eventually took a commission in the Russian army. He served under Alexander Suvorov ...more

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	سفر به دور اتاقم 3.30 avg rating — 1,780 ratings — published 1794 — 271 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre, Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author) (Foreword by) 3.54 avg rating — 548 ratings — published 1825 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre by Xavier de Maistre, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator), Richard Howard (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1825 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Expédition Nocturne Autour De Ma Chambre 3.41 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1825 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Leper Of The City Of Aosta (1873) by Xavier de Maistre, Henry Attwell (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 32 ratings — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viaggio intorno alla mia stanza: con Spedizione notturna intorno alla mia stanza by Xavier de Maistre, Donata Feroldi (translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Jeune Sibérienne 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Journey Around My Room 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voyage autour de ma chambre 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il lebbroso della città di Aosta - La giovane siberiana - I prigionieri del Caucaso 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”
― Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre

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“After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn’t have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.”
― Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Around my Room

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“I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.”
― Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room

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