François Descôtes (written Descostes sometimes) is a lawyer and Savoyard writer , born the March 21st 1846 and deceased in 1908.

Specialist in Joseph de Maistre, it is elected in 1873 with the Académie in Savoy, from which he becomes president of 1886 to 1887, then in 1900 to 1908.

He was also prize winner of the French Academy - Thérouane price - for his work the French revolution seen from abroad 1789-1799, Mallet of the Side in Bern & London according to a new correspondence (foreword of the marquis Charles-Albert Costa de Beauregard, French Academy) published in 1897.

He tries the political adventure while contributing to the delegation and while taking part in the local elections of 1896, with Chambéry. Belongs to the local catholic right-hand side.

He is founder of CIF of Chambéry

Works

  • the French revolution seen from abroad 1789-1799, Mallet of the Side in Bern & London , Turns: Alfred Mame & wire, 1897
  • Joseph de Maistre before the Revolution: memories of the company of formerly, 1753-1793. Paris, Picardy, 1893 (2 vol.).
  • Joseph de Maistre speaker. Chambéry, Perrin, 1896.

Quotations

" the old woman Savoy lived. The uniformity of the mode of Paris replaces the originality of the national habits. The provincial life of formerly is nothing any more but one to remember. We become unspecified whereas we were somebody. "

Sources

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