Joseph de Maistre, reactionary political philosopher, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie, author of L'Homme Machine. Not at all the same person! Quite antithetical, in fact.
Also, a thinker I didn't know about: Juan Donoso Cortés. He seems to be a spanish analogue to Joseph de Maistre.
Edit. Another spanish traditionalist: Jaime Balmes.
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I get them mixed up with a young French harpist called Xavier de Mestre (I haven't googled the spelling).
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