Note 51 — I HISTORICAL
Reading edition
It is thus curious to find that the Essay was highly praised by Joseph de Maistre—one of the greatest of conservatives of this or of any age: see Du Pape, Bk. III, ch. iii, section 3, where the Essay is called ‘un profond ouvrage’ ... ‘un des livres rares après lesquels tout le monde est dispensé de traiter le même sujet’. Yet in 1856 the Dictionnaire de l’Économie Politique was put upon the Index because it supported the conclusions of the Essay.