Richard Lebrun

{{Short description|Canadian historian of ideas}}

Richard Lebrun is a Canadian historian and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. He is the leading scholar of Joseph de Maistre in English.Graeme Garrard, ‘Review: Joseph de Maistre and the Legacy of Enlightenment by Carolina

Armenteros and Richard Lebrun’, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 107, No. 2 (April 2012), p. 623.

Lebrun was educated at St. John's University where he gained his BA in 1953 and at the University of Minnesota where he gained his MA in 1957 and his PhD in 1963.[http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/history/members/lebrun.html Profile and CV] at The University of Manitoba website

Lebrun has edited and annotated the published and unpublished works of de Maistre.[http://www.nlx.com/collections/81 The Collected Works of Joseph de Maistre. Electronic Edition.]

Works

  • Throne and Altar: The Political and Religious Thought of Joseph de Maistre (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1965).
  • Joseph de Maistre: An Intellectual Militant (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988).
  • (editor), Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001).
  • Lamennais: A Believer's Revolutionary Politics (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018) Translations by Richard A Lebrun & Jerry Ryan, Introduction and Annotations by Sylvain Milbach

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