Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gobineau dan Legitimist ne wanda ya yanke ƙauna a faduwar Faransa zuwa tsarin jamhuriya da kuma karfafawa. An rubuta littafin ne bayan juyin juya halin 1848
lokacin da Gobineau ya fara nazarin ayyukan masana ilimin lissafi Xavier Bichat da Johann Blumenbach.