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This chapter studies Maistres reception in the German-speaking world that is to be completed and shaped, increasing the precision with respect to the literary, political, and ideological relations between the two great counter-revolutionary thinkers, and allows to retrace the political, philosophical, and spiritual positions of the man who was called the Germanic Burke by his contemporaries, within the traditionalist counter-revolutionary and Romantic European networks during the period of the Restoration Congresses. In the first, Bonald assured Gentz that his principles converged with his own. tthe audacious race of Japhet has never ceased to gravitate towards what is called freedom . He retained the independence of mind of a free thinker, which so characterised him, while promoting and defending the propagation of Maistres ideas and a press with Catholic tendencies, according to his own inclinations and personality, through political and literary networks within which he was an essential figure. Keywords: Bonald; Catholic; Du Pape ; Friedrich Von Gentz; German; Maistre