"A nobleman is not only a subject, he is the most subordinate of all."
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Quoted by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 330
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Louis de Bonald
Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald (2 October 1754 – 23 November 1840), was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician. He is mainly remembered for developing a theoretical framework from which French sociology would emerge.
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