People from Martigues - Charles Maurras (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (20 April 1868 16 November 1952) was a French author, poet, and critic. He was a leader and principal thinker of Action Franaise, a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary. Maurras' ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and "nationalisme integrale". A major tenet of integral nationalism was put forth by Maurras as "A true nationalist places his country above everything". A political theorist, a major intellectual influence in early 20th-century Europe, his views anticipated some of the ideas of fascism. Maurras was born in an old Provenal family, and brought up by his mother and grand-mother in a Catholic and monarchist environment. In his early teens he became deaf. Like many other French politicians, he was heavily affected by the defeat during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. After the 1871 Commune and the 1879 defeat of Marshall Mac-Mahon's Moral Order government, French society slowly found a consensus for the Republic, symbolized by the rallying of the Orleanists to the Republic. In his youth, Maurras was a disciple of the poet Frdric Mistral and shared the federalist thesis of the Provenal Flibrige movement. He published his first article, at 17 years-old, in the Annales de philosophie chrtienne review. He then collaborated to various reviews, including Lvnement, La Revue bleue, La Gazette de France or La Revue encyclopdique, where he praised Classicism and attacked Romanticism. However, some time in his youth, Maurras lost his faith and became an agnostic over time. At the age of seventeen he came to Paris and started literary criticism in 1887 in the Catholic and Orleanist Observateur. At this time, Maurras was influenced by Orleanism, as wel... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=219709