This article seeks to analyze three great exponents of European conservative thought, and it's positioning before the French Revolution. Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). The French Revolution inaugurated a new phase in the history of humanity, raising the banner of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. However, in the portico of this Revolution was present the guillotine, and, in the midst of the revolutionary whirlwind that marked

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... , there was also the Kingdom of Terror, whose main character was the lawyer of Arras, Maxilimien de Robespierre, causing the French Revolution Was transformed into a Total Revolution, reaching all instances, whether civil, religious or administrative.