Edmund Burke and Joseph DeMaistre-Age of Reaction

Edmund Burke and Joseph De Maistre were, indeed, both conservatives. The conservatives were the reactionaries of the Age of Reaction. Where they reflective of the Age of Reaction? I would say, yes, they were!
The reactionaries believed in a traditional rule. They wanted kings, an aristocracy, and a clergy. A matter of fact, most of these reactionaries were one of the three! They believed that due to the French Revolution tradition was ruined in Europe due to the rise of Napoleon, who got rid of kings, aristocrats, and the clergy. Also the Revolution brought on violence, terror and war. Something, in their mind, that would have never happened with a traditional government in power. They also believed that the Jacobins (“liberals”) were assassins because of the Terror.
Burke, who was an Anglo-Irishman, wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France that liberty and social order are maintained by the traditional rights and duties embedded in custom and law. And ...