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François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

Joseph de Maistre

Otto von Bismarck

Benjamin Disraeli

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaks at a podium with microphones and an open folder at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Charles de Gaulle

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Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre wearing a black clerical robe and a gold chain with a cross, posing outdoors in Econe, Switzerland.

Marcel Lefebvre

French archbishop

Pius X, 1903

St. Pius X

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Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther

American theologian