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>>19961083
Maistre is overrated imo as a monarchist because of trad circlejerks.
I would recommend these books:
Darius in the Herodotus Debate
(that is Herodotus Histories)
Hesiod's praise of kings in Theogony
Plato's Statesman, Laws, Republic
Aristotle Politics
Dante De Monarchia
Aquinas De Regno

Absolutist books:
Jean Bodin Six Books of a Commonwealth
(for a beginner on absolutism)
King James I political works
XIX of Leviathan goes over some Monarchy points
Robert Filmer Patriarcha & other works
Politics Drawn from Holy Scripture by Bossuet
Reflections of a Russian Statesman by Konstatin Pobedonostsev

If you're right libertarian leaning:
(I am not, but I know they like these books)
Liberty or Equality by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddhn
(a kind of proto-Hoppe)
Democracy the God that Failed by Hoppe
State in the Third Millennium by Hans Adams II

Some of these books you'll find the most strong advocacy of Monarchy and its supremacy.

North Korean propaganda also has its own pre-eminence & kinda mirrors those ideals. I would recommend a few songs if you can find translations.
DPRK songs:
We Call Him Father
Our Father Kim Jong Il
Oh, Benevolent Father

Aristotle says the ideal of monarchy is a fatherly regime with parental care and love. & there are a few ideals of the pre-eminent Monarchy in those songs.

DPRK cartoons:
Two Commanding Swords
Nine Boatmen

These cartoons appeal to Homer's famous monarchist mantra of "let there be one ruler, one king"

Read all this and understand the pre-eminent view of Monarchy, and maybe you'll be a step above trads who usually turn out to be crypto-oligarchy apologists.