Victor de Bonald

Étienne-Marie-Victor, vicomte de Bonald (19 May 1780 – 2 March 1871) was a French writer, lawyer (specializing in public law) and political journalist.

Biography

Victor de Bonald was born in Millau, Aveyron, the son of Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald. He followed his father in his exile. He was rector of the Academy of Montpellier after the Bourbon Restoration, but lost his post during the Hundred Days. Regaining it at the Second Restoration, he resigned finally in 1830 rather than take an oath to Louis Philippe. Later he wrote a life of his father.

Victor de Bonald died on March 2, 1871 in the town of Rodez, at the age of 90.

Private life

Victor de Bonald married Berthille Honorine de Mazade d'Avèze (1787–1825) on April 23, 1812. The couple had four children:

• Anne Louis Séverin de Bonald de La Rode (1813–1813)
• Victor Etienne Marie de Bonald de La Rode, Viscount de Bonald (1814–1897)
• Paul de Bonald de La Rode, Viscount de Bonald (1821–1893)
• Marie Gabriel de Bonald de La Rode (1824–1906)

Works

• Des vrais principes opposés aux erreurs du XIXe siècle, ou Notices positives sur les points fondamentaux de la philosophie, de la politique et de la religion (1833)
• Moïse et les géologues modernes, ou récit de la Genèse comparé aux théories nouvelles des savants sur l'origine de l'univers, la formation de la terre, etc. (1835)
• Défense de ses principes philosophiques (1841)
• De la Vie et des écrits de M. le vicomte de Bonald (1844; 1854)
• Encore un mot sur Pascal, les jésuites et l'enseignement (1845)

He was also the author of a verse translation of Virgil's Bucolics.

External links

• Works by Victor de Bonald at Gallica