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MAISTRE, XAVIER DE (1763-1852)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 446 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAISTRE, XAVIER DE (1763-1852) , younger brother of Joseph de Maistre, was born at
Chambery
  in October 1763. He served when
young
  in the Piedmontese army, and wrote his delightful fantasy, Voyage autour de ma chambre (published 1794) when he was under arrest at Turin in consequence of a duel. Xavier shared the politics and the loyalty of his brother, and on the annexation of Savoy to France, he left the service, and took a commission in the Russian army. He served under Suvarov in his victorious Austro-Russian campaign and accompanied the
marshal
  to
Russia
 . He shared the disgrace of his general, and supported himself for some time in St
Petersburg
  by miniature painting. But on his brother's arrival in St
Petersburg
  he was introduced to the minister of marine. He was appointed to several posts in the
capital
 , but also saw active service, was wounded in the Caucasus, and attained the rank of major-general. He married a Russian lady and established himself in his adopted country, even after the overthrow of
Napoleon
 , and the consequent restoration of the Piedmontese dynasty. For a time, however, he lived at Naples, but he returned to St Petersburg and died there on the 12th of June 1852. He was only once in Paris (in 1839), when Sainte-Beuve, who has left some pleasant reminiscences of him, met him. Besides the Voyage already mentioned, Xavier de Maistre's works (all of which are of very modest dimensions) are Le Lepreux de la cite d'Aoste (1811), a touching little story of human misfortune; Les Prisonniers du Caucase, a powerful sketch of Russian character, La Jeune Siberienne, and the Expedition nocturne, a sequel to the Voyage autour de ma chambre (1825). His style is of remarkable ease and purity.
His works, with the exception of some brief chemical tractates, are included in the collections of Charpentier,
Garnier
 , &c. See Sainte-Beuve's Portraits contemporains, vol. iii.


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