Introduction
Throne and Altar, also known as Proto-Traditionalist Conservatism, was the dominant ideology in the Kingdom of France from c. 1450 (though it didn't fully attain power until after the European Wars of Religion came to an end) to c. 1792. It believes in a strong absolutist monarchy and a strong state church mutually supporting each other in ruling over the people.
Overview
Characteristics of the Throne and Altar political system include a politically influential (though not politically autonomous) nobility with "feudal privileges", strong class stratification of society which it roughly divides into three classes or "estates" of the Clergy, Nobility, and Commoners, tolerance for a state-controlled church (primarily through an agreement if said church is Catholic), and an absolute monarch whose power is somewhat limited by moral customs and religious authorities.
This system differs from Reactionarism in how it represents France (and to an extent, Europe at large) as it was before the French Revolution, while Reactionarism attempts to restore it, though in practice Reactionarism does not advocate for a complete/'true" restoration from Throne and Altar's perspective.
Variants
Joseph de Maistre Thought
Joseph de Maistre Thought is the political views of Joseph de Maistre.
Personality
He is somewhat less religious compared to his medieval parents, but is very religious when compared to modern ideologies.
His lifestyle and personality somewhat resembles Louis XIV of France.
Relationships
Friends
- Absolute Monarchism - It is legal because I wish it. (What do you mean the nobility disagrees?!)
- Orthodox Caesaropapism - My ideal church-state relationship.
- Cameralism - My primary economic system!
- Counter-Enlightenment - A noble cause!
- Jacobitism - My British child/counterpart!
- Tsarism - My Russian child/counterpart!
- 1500ism, 1600ism, 1700ism - True restorationism.
Frenemies
- Feudalism - While I do keep a lot of your ideas around, I don't want the nobility to be all-powerful!
- Catholic Theocracy - Nor the clergy!
- Enlightened Absolutism - Severely misguided, but at least still embraces absolutism.
- Reactionarism - Vienna didn't restore Europe to the state it was before the revolution.
- Classical Conservatism - Relatively respectable, but not even close to a true restorationist.
Enemies
- Enlightenment - Mankind's worst mistake.
- Classical Liberalism and Jacobinism - You took everything thing from me!
- Bonapartism - You destroyed Europe!!!
- Elective Monarchism - You want the filthy commoner peasants to make decisions?!
- Ceremonial Monarchism - Pathetic.
For More Information
Wikipedia
- New Monarchs
- Early modern Europe
- Early modern France
- Stately quadrille
- Cabinet Wars
- International relations, 1648-1814
- Ancien Régime
- Peace of Westphalia
Other Reading
http://esl.fis.edu/Students/humanities/history/whDS_508.html
https://lawexplores.com/from-absolute-monarchy-to-democratic-absolutism-the-french-revolution/#Sec9
https://lawexplores.com/from-absolute-monarchy-to-democratic-absolutism-the-french-revolution/#Sec10
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/royal-government/
https://debatewise.org/889-absolute-monarchy-was-limited-monarchy/#yes1
https://www.britannica.com/topic/monarchy/Premodern-monarchies
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-rise-of-the-nobility/
https://ehwilliams.wordpress.com/
https://frenchunionist.org/2019/04/06/the-fundamental-laws/
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/parlements/
https://europeanroyalhistory.wordpress.com/tag/fundamental-laws-of-succession-to-the-french-crown/