Charles Maurras

French author, politician, poet, and critic (1868–1952)

Charles Maurras

Maurras in 1937

Born|

Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras

(1868-04-20)20 April 1868

Martigues, Bouches-du-Rhône, Second French Empire

Died| 16 November 1952(1952-11-16) (aged 84)

Tours, Fourth French Republic

Awards| Order of the Francisque
Philosophical work
Era| 20th century philosophy
Region| Western philosophy
School|

* Maurrassisme
* Positivism
* Royalism
* Integral nationalism
* Reactionism

Main interests| Political philosophy
Notable works|

* Enquête sur la monarchie
* L'Avenir de l'intelligence
* Kiel et Tanger
* Devant l'Allemagne éternelle

Notable ideas| Maurrassisme
Signature

Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (/mɔːˈrɑːs/;[1] French: [ʃaʁl moʁas]; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet and critic. He was an organiser and principal philosopher of Action Française, a political movement that was monarchist, corporatist and counter-revolutionary. Maurras also held anti-capitalist, anti-communist, anti-liberal, anti-Masonic, anti-Nazi, anti-Protestant and antisemitic views. His ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and integral nationalism,[2] and led to the political doctrine of Maurrassisme.

Raised Roman Catholic, Maurras went deaf and became an agnostic in his youth, but remained anti-secularist and politically supportive of the Catholic Church. An Orléanist, he began his career by writing literary criticism and became politically active as a leading anti-Dreyfusard. In 1926 Pope Pius XI issued a controversial papal condemnation of Action Française, which was swiftly repealed by Pope Pius XII in 1939. Maurras was elected to the Académie Française in 1938, and later expelled in 1945.

In 1936, after voicing death threats against the socialist politician Léon Blum, Maurras was sentenced to eight months in La Santé. While imprisoned he received the support of Marie-Pauline Martin, Henry Bordeaux, Pius XI and up to 60,000 sympathetic citizens.[3] During the Second World War Maurras opposed Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, but supported Vichy France, believing that Free France was a puppet state of the Soviet Union.[4][5] He explained his support for Vichy, writing: "As a royalist I never lost sight of the necessity of monarchy. But to enthrone the royal heir, the heritage had to be saved."[6] After Vichy's collapse he was arrested and accused of complicity with the enemy.[6] Following a political trial he was convicted of incitement to murder, and received Indignité nationale and a life sentence. In 1951, after falling ill, he was transferred to a hospital and subsequently received a medical pardon. In his final days he reverted to Catholicism and received the last rites shortly before his death.

As a political theorist and major right-wing intellectual of 20th-century Europe, Maurras significantly influenced right-wing and far-right ideologies, anticipating some of the ideas of fascism.[7] He has been described as the most important French conservative intellectual,[8] and has directly influenced a large number of politicians, theorists, and writers on both the left and right, including Louis Althusser, Steve Bannon, Georges Bernanos, Louis Billot, Antoine Blondin, Juan Carulla, Charles Coughlin, Léon Degrelle, Pedro Descoqs, Michel Déon, C. H. Douglas, Georges Dumézil, Maurice Duplessis, T. S. Eliot, Julius Evola, Christopher Ferrara, Fransisco Franco, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Heidegger, Henri, Count of Paris, T. E. Hulme, Rodolfo Irazusta, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Laurent, Emmanuel Macron, Jacques Maritain, Thierry Maulnier, Antonio Maura, François Mauriac, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, Carlos Pereyra, Juan Perón, Philippe Pétain, Raymond Poincaré, Victor Pradera Larumbe, António de Oliveira Salazar, António Sardinha, Carl Schmitt, Georges Sorel, Gustave Thibon, Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, and Éric Zemmour.

Maurras' legacy has remained controversial to this day. Critics have derided him as a "fascist icon", while supporters, including Georges Pompidou, have praised him as a prophet. Others, including Macron, have taken a nuanced approach, with Macron stating: "I fight all the antisemitic ideas of Maurras, but I find it absurd to say that Maurras must no longer exist."[9][10]

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## Biography

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### Before the First World War

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A young Maurras in 1877.

Maurras was born into a Provençal family, brought up by his mother and grandmother in a Catholic and monarchist environment. In his early teens, he became deaf.[11] Like many other French politicians, he was affected greatly by France's defeat in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.[12] After the 1871 Commune of Paris and the 1879 defeat of Patrice de MacMahon's Moral Order government, French society slowly found a consensus for the French Third Republic, symbolised by the rallying of the monarchist Orleanists to the Republic. Maurras published his first article at the age of 17 years in the review Annales de philosophie chrétienne.[11] He then collaborated on various reviews, including L'Événement, La Revue bleue, La Gazette de France and La Revue encyclopédique, in which he praised Classicism and attacked Romanticism.[11]

At some point during his youth Maurras lost his Catholic faith and became an agnostic. In 1887, at the age of seventeen, he came to Paris and began writing literary criticism in the Catholic and Orleanist Observateur.[12] At this time Maurras was influenced by Orleanism, as well as German philosophy reviewed by Catholic thinker Léon Ollé-Laprune, an influence of Henri Bergson, and by the philosopher Maurice Blondel, one of the inspirations of Christian "modernists", who would later become his greatest opponents.[12] He became acquainted with the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral in 1888 and shared the federalist thesis of Mistral's Félibrige movement (see Maurras and Félibrige).[12] The same year he met the nationalist writer Maurice Barrès.[13]

In 1890 Maurras approved Cardinal Lavigerie's call for the rallying of Catholics to the Republic, thus making his opposition not to the Republic in itself, but to "sectarian Republicanism".[12]

Beside this Orleanist affiliation, Maurras shared some traits with Bonapartism. In December 1887 he demonstrated to the cry of "Down with the robbers!" during the military decorations trafficking scandal, which had involved Daniel Wilson, the son-in-law of President Jules Grévy.[12] Despite this, he initially opposed the nationalist-populist Boulangist philosophy.[12] But in 1889, after a visit to Maurice Barrès, Barrès voted for the Boulangist candidate; despite his "anti-Semitism of the heart" ("anti-sémitisme de coeur"), he decided to vote for a Jew.[12]

During 1894–1895, Maurras briefly worked for Barrès' newspaper La Cocarde (The Cockade), although he sometimes opposed Barrès' opinions concerning the French Revolution.[12] La Cocarde supported General Georges Ernest Boulanger, who had become a threat to the parliamentary Republic in the late 1880s.

During a trip to Athens for the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, Maurras came to criticise the Greek democratic system of the polis, which he considered doomed because of its internal divisions and its openness towards métèques (foreigners).[12]

#### Political involvement

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Maurras became involved in politics at the time of the Dreyfus affair, becoming an anti-Dreyfusard. He endorsed Hubert-Joseph Henry's forgery, blaming Alfred Dreyfus, as he considered that defending Dreyfus weakened the Army and the justice system. According to Maurras, Dreyfus was to be sacrificed on the altar of national interest.[12] But while the Republican nationalist thinker Barrès accused Dreyfus of being guilty because of his Jewishness, Maurras went a step further, vilifying the "Jewish Republic".[12] While Barrès' anti-Semitism originated both in pseudo-scientific racist contemporary theories and Biblical exegesis, Maurras decried "scientific racism" in favor of a more radical "state anti-Semitism."[12] Maurras assisted with the foundation of the nationalist and anti-Dreyfusard Ligue de la patrie française at the end of 1898, along with Maurice Barrès, the geographer Marcel Dubois, the poet François Coppée and the critic and literature professor Jules Lemaître.[14]

In 1899 Maurras founded the review Action Française (AF), an offshoot of the newspaper created by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois the year preceding.[11] Maurras quickly became influential in the movement, and converted Pujo and Vaugeois to monarchism, which became the movement's principal cause. With Léon Daudet, he edited the movement's review, La Revue de l'Action Française, which during 1908 became a daily newspaper with the shorter title L'Action Française. The AF mixed integral nationalism with reactionary themes, shifting the nationalist ideology, previously supported by left-wing Republicans, to the political right.[15] It had a wide readership during the implementation of the 1905 law on the separation of Church and State. In 1899 he wrote a short notice in favour of monarchy, "Dictateur et roi" ("Dictator and King"), and then in 1900 his Enquête sur la monarchie (Investigations on Monarchy), published in the Legitimist mouthpiece La Gazette de France, which made him famous. Maurras also published thirteen articles in the newspaper Le Figaro during 1901 and 1902, as well as six articles between November 1902 and January 1903 in Edouard Drumont's anti-Semitic newspaper, La Libre Parole.[13]

Between 1905 and 1908, when the Camelots du Roi monarchist league was initiated, Maurras introduced the concept of political activism through extra-parliamentary leagues, theorising the possibility of a coup d'état.[12] Maurras also founded the Ligue d'Action Française in 1905, whose mission was to recruit members for the Action Française. Members pledged to fight the republican regime and to support restoration of the monarchy under Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869–1926).[16]

Many early members of the Action Française were practising Catholics, including Bernard de Vésins, the art historian Louis Dimier and the essayist Léon de Montesquiou. They helped Maurras develop the royalist league's pro-Catholic policies.[17]

Maurras entered in a conflict with Paul Granier de Cassagnac editor of L'Autorite, and his brother Guy. The affair ended with a sword duel between Paul de Cassagnac and Charles Maurras which took place in Neuilly on 26 February 1912. Maurras was struck in the forearm. His arm was seriously injured. This brought the combat to a close.

### From the First World War to the end of the 1930s

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Maurras then endorsed France's entry into the First World War (even to the extent of supporting the thoroughly republican Georges Clemenceau) against the German Empire. During the war the Jewish businessman Emile Ullman was forced to resign from the board of directors of the Comptoir d'Escompte bank after Maurras accused him of being a German agent. He then criticised the Treaty of Versailles for not being harsh enough on the Germans and condemned Aristide Briand's policy of cooperation with Germany.[11] In 1923 Germaine Berton carried out the assassination of his fellow Action Française member Marius Plateau. Berton had planned to also assassinate Léon Daudet and Maurras but was unsuccessful.[18]

Maurras in 1925

In 1925 he called for the murder of Abraham Schrameck, the Interior Minister of Paul Painlevé's Cartel des Gauches's (left-wing coalition) government, who had ordered the disarming of the far-right leagues.[13] For this death threat, he was sentenced to a fine and a year in jail (suspended).[13]

In 1929 Pope Pius XI condemned the Action Française, which until then was supported by a large number of Catholics, clergy, and laity alike. Several of the works of the movement's founder Charles Maurras were placed into the Index Librorum Prohibitorum,[19] alongside the movement's official newspaper.[20] This was a devastating blow to the movement. On 8 March 1927, AF members were prohibited from receiving the sacraments. Many of its members left (two Catholics who were forced to look for a different path in politics and life were the writers François Mauriac and Georges Bernanos) and it entered a period of decline.[21]

Maurras again voiced death threats against the President of the Council (prime minister) Léon Blum, organiser of the Popular Front, in the Action Française of 15 May 1936, emphasising his Jewish origins (he once called him an "old semitic camel").[13] This other death threat earned him eight months in prison, from 29 October 1936 to 6 July 1937.[13] Fearing communism, he joined the pacifists and praised the Munich Agreement of 1938, which the President of the Council Édouard Daladier had signed without any illusions. He also wrote in Action Française:

> There are certain conservatives in France who fill us with disgust. Why? Because of their stupidity. What kind of stupidity? Hitlerism. These French "conservatives" crawl on their bellies before Hitler. These former nationalists cringe before him. A few zealots wallow in dirt, in their own dirt, with endless Heils. The wealthier they are, the more they own, the more important it is to make them understand that if Hitler invaded us he would skin them much more thoroughly than Blum, Thorez and Stalin combined. This "conservative" error is suicidal. We must appeal to our friends not to let themselves be befogged. We must tell them: Be on your guard! What is now at stake is not anti-democracy or anti-Semitism. France above all![22]

During the 1930s – especially after the 6 February 1934 crisis[23]—many of Action Française members turned to fascism, including Robert Brasillach, Lucien Rebatet, Abel Bonnard, Paul Chack and Claude Jeantet. Most of them belonged to the staff of the fascist newspaper Je suis partout (I am everywhere).

Influencing António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime in Portugal, Maurras also supported Francisco Franco and, until spring 1939, Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. Opposing Adolf Hitler because he was anti-German, Maurras himself criticised the racist policies of Nazism in 1936, and requested a complete translation of Mein Kampf – some passages had been censored in the French edition.

After his failure against Charles Jonnart in 1924 to be elected to the Académie française, he succeeded in entering the ranks of the "Immortals" on 9 June 1938, replacing Henri-Robert, winning by 20 votes against 12 to Fernand Gregh. He was received into the Academy on 8 June 1939 by the Catholic writer Henry Bordeaux. In the same year, Pope Pius XII repealed his predecessor's condemnation of the Action Française.[21]

### Vichy regime, arrest and death

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Maurras on trial in 1945.

In June 1940, articles in Action Française signed by Maurras, Léon Daudet, and Maurice Pujo praised General Charles de Gaulle.[24] While Maurras described Marshal Philippe Pétain as a "divine surprise",[25] the statement is usually quoted without context; Maurras was referring specifically to Pétain having political talent as well as being a symbol of France, and there is no evidence of the remark until February 1941.[26]

Vichy France's reactionary program of a Révolution Nationale (National Revolution) was fully approved of by Maurras, who inspired large parts of it.[11] The monarchist newspaper was forbidden in the Occupied Zone and under Vichy censorship in the Southern Zone from November 1942.[27] In La Seule France (1941) Maurras argued for a policy of France d'abord ("France First"), whereby France would restore itself politically and morally under Pétain, resolving what Maurras saw as the causes of France's defeat in 1940, before dealing with the issue of the foreign occupation. This position was contrasted to the attitude of the Gaullists, who fled France and continued the military struggle. Maurras savaged the pre-war French governments for taking an increasingly bellicose position vis-à-vis Germany at precisely the same time that these governments were weakening France, militarily, socially and politically, thereby making France's defeat during 1940 all but inevitable. Maurras also criticised the 1940 Law on the status of Jews for being too moderate.[12] At the same time, he continued to express elements of his longstanding antipathy towards Germany by arguing in La Seule France that Frenchmen must not be drawn to that country's model and by hosting anti-German conferences,[28] and he opposed both the "dissidents" in London and the collaborators in Paris and Vichy (such as Lucien Rebatet,[29] Robert Brasillach, Pierre Laval or Marcel Déat).[30] In 1943 the Germans planned to arrest Maurras.[31]

A pre-war admirer of de Gaulle, who himself had been influenced by Maurras' integralism, Maurras then harshly criticised the General in exile. He later claimed he believed that Pétain was playing a "double game", working for an Allied victory in secret.[citation needed]

After the liberation of France Maurras was arrested in September 1944 together with his right-hand man Maurice Pujo, and indicted before the High Court of Lyon for "complicity with the enemy" on the basis of the articles he had published since the beginning of the war. At the end of the trial, during which there were many irregularities such as false dating or truncated quotations,[32] Maurras was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprivation of civil liberties. He was automatically dismissed from the Académie française (a measure included in the ordinance of 26 December 1944[11]). His response to his conviction was to exclaim C'est la revanche de Dreyfus! ("It's Dreyfus's revenge!")[12]

According to the historian Eugen Weber the trial against Maurras was political and was rigged against him. Weber writes that the jurors who were chosen for Maurras' case were taken from a list drawn up by his political enemies.[33]

Meanwhile, the Académie française declared his seat vacant, as it had for Pétain's, instead of expelling him as it did for Abel Hermant and Abel Bonnard.[11] (The academy waited until his death to elect his successor, and chose Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix, who was himself influenced by Action Française and collaborated with Pierre Boutang's monarchist review La Nation Française.)

After being imprisoned in Riom and then Clairvaux, Maurras was released in March 1952 to be hospitalised. He was supported by Henry Bordeaux, who repeatedly asked the President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol, to pardon Maurras. Although weakened, Maurras collaborated with Aspects de la France, which had replaced the outlawed review Action Française in 1947. He was transferred to a clinic in Tours, where he died soon afterwards. In his last days, he readopted the Catholic faith of his childhood and received the last rites.[34]

## Maurras' work

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Main article: Maurassisme

### Maurras and Félibrige

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Main article: Félibrige

A Provence-born author, Maurras joined Félibrige, a literary and cultural association founded by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote Occitan languages and literature. The name of the association was derived from félibre, a Provençal word meaning pupil or follower.

### Maurras' political thought

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Maurras with Action Française in 1927. Maurras with Henri of Orléans in 1934.

Maurras' political ideas were based on intense nationalism (what he described as "integral nationalism") and a belief in an ordered society based on strong government. These were the bases of his endorsement for both the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church.

He formulated an aggressive political strategy, which contrasted with the Legitimists' apathy for political action.[12] He managed to combine the paradox of a reactionary thought which would actively change history, a form of Counter-revolution opposed to simple conservatism.[12] His "integral nationalism" rejected all democratic principles which he judged contrary to "natural inequality", criticising all evolution since the 1789 French Revolution, and advocated the return to a hereditary monarchy.[11]

Like many people in Europe at the time, he was haunted by the idea of "decadence", partly inspired by his reading of the publications of Hippolyte Taine and Ernest Renan, and admired classicism. He felt that France had lost its grandeur during the French Revolution in 1789, a grandeur inherited from its origins as a province of the Roman Empire and forged by, as he put it, "forty kings who in a thousand years made France." The French Revolution, he wrote in the Observateur Français, was negative and destructive.

He traced this decline further back, to the Enlightenment and the Reformation; he described the source of the evil as "Swiss ideas", a reference to the adopted nation of John Calvin and the birth nation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Maurras further blamed France's decline on "Anti-France", which he defined as the "four confederate states of Protestants, Jews, Freemasons and foreigners" (his actual word for the latter being the xenophobic term métèques). Indeed, to him the first three were all "internal foreigners."[35]

Antisemitism and anti-Protestantism were common themes in his writings. He believed that the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the eventual outcome of the French Revolution had all contributed to individuals valuing themselves more than the nation, with consequent negative effects on the latter, and that democracy and liberalism were only making matters worse.

Although Maurras advocated the revival of monarchy, in many ways, Maurras did not typify the French monarchist tradition. His endorsement of the monarchy and Catholicism was explicitly pragmatic, as he alleged that a state religion was the only way of maintaining public order. By contrast with Maurice Barrès, a theorist of a kind of Romantic nationalism based on the Ego, Maurras claimed to base his opinions on reason rather than on sentiment, loyalty, and faith.

Paradoxically, he admired the positivist philosopher Auguste Comte, like many of the Third Republic politicians he detested, with which he opposed German idealism. Whereas the Legitimist monarchists refused to engage in political action, retreating into an intransigently conservative Catholicism and a relative indifference to a modern world they believed was irredeemably wicked and apostate, Maurras was prepared to engage in political action, both orthodox and unorthodox (the Action Française's Camelots du Roi league frequently engaged in street violence with left-wing opponents, as well as Marc Sangnier's socialist Catholic Le Sillon). Maurras was twice convicted of inciting violence against Jewish politicians, and Léon Blum, the first Jewish French prime minister, nearly died from the injuries inflicted by associates of Maurras.[36] His slogan was the phrase "La politique d'abord!" ("Politics first!"). Other influences included Frédéric Le Play, British empiricism, which allowed him to reconcile Cartesian rationalism with empiricism,[12] and René de La Tour du Pin.

Maurras' religious views were likewise less than orthodox. He supported the political Catholic Church both because it was intimately involved with French history and because its hierarchical structure and clerical elite mirrored his image of an ideal society. He considered the Church to be the mortar which held France together, and the association linking all Frenchmen together. However, he distrusted the Gospels, written, as he put it, "by four obscure Jews",[37] but admired the Catholic Church for having allegedly concealed much of the Bible's "dangerous teachings". Maurras' interpretation of the Gospels and his integralist teachings were fiercely criticised by many Catholic clergy. However, towards the end of his life, Maurras eventually converted from agnosticism to Catholicism.

Notwithstanding his religious unorthodoxy, Maurras gained a large following among French monarchists and Catholics, including the Assumptionists and the Orleanist pretender to the French throne, the comte de Paris, Philippe. Nonetheless, his agnosticism worried parts of the Catholic hierarchy, and in 1926 Pope Pius XI placed some of Maurras's writings on the Index of Forbidden Books[19] and condemned the Action Française philosophy as a whole. Seven of Maurras' books had already been placed on this list in 1914 and a dossier on Maurras had been submitted to Pius X.

It was not just his agnosticism which worried the Catholic hierarchy, but that by insisting upon politiques d'abord he questioned the primacy of the spiritual and thus the teaching authority of the Church and the authority of the Pope himself. That this was the basis of the matter is shown by Jacques Maritain's book Primauté du Spirituel. Maritain was associated with L'Action Française and knew Maurras. While his unease with the movement pre-dates the 1926 crisis, it was this which occasioned his alienation from Maurras and L'Action Française. This papal condemnation was a great surprise to many of his devotees, who included a considerable number of French clergy, and caused great damage to the movement. The papal ban was later ended by Pope Pius XII in 1939, a year after Maurras was elected to the Académie française.[38]

### Legacy

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Bust of Maurras' head in Martigues

Maurras was a major intellectual influence of national Catholicism, far-right movements, Latin conservatism, and integral nationalism.[2] He and the Action Française influenced many people and movements including General Francisco Franco, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, António Sardinha, Leon Degrelle, the historian and journalist Álvaro Alcalá-Galiano y Osma and autonomist movements in Europe. The Christian Democrat Jacques Maritain was also close to Maurras before the papal condemnation of the AF in 1927,[2] and criticised democracy in one of his early writings, Une opinion sur Charles Maurras ou le devoir des catholiques.[2] Furthermore, Maurrassism also influenced many writings from members of the Organisation armée secrète who theorised "counter-revolutionary warfare".[2] In Spain the Acción Española adopted not only its far right monarchism but also its name from Maurras's movement.[39]

The influence extended to Latin America, as in Mexico where Jesús Guiza y Acevedo[2] was nicknamed "the little Maurras", as well as the historian Carlos Pereyra or the Venezuelan author Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, who wrote a book titled Cesarismo democrático (Democratic Caesarism).[2]. Maurras' thought also influenced Catholic fundamentalist supporters of the Brazilian dictatorship[2] (1964–85) as well as the Cursillos de la Cristiandad (Christendom Courses), similar to the Cité Catholique group, which were initiated during 1950 by the bishop of Ciudad Real, Mgr. Hervé.[2] The Argentine militarist Juan Carlos Onganía, who overthrew Arturo Illia in a military putsch in 1966, as well as Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, who succeeded Onganía after another coup, had participated in the Cursillos de la Cristiandad,[2] as did also the Dominican militarists Antonio Imbert Barrera and Elías Wessin y Wessin, chief of staff of the military and an opponent of the restoration of the 1963 Constitution after Rafael Trujillo was deposed.[2] In Argentina he also influenced the nationalist writers of the 1920s and 1930s such as Rodolfo Irazusta and Juan Carulla.[40]

In 2017 Michael Crowley wrote that Steve Bannon, then chief strategist to Donald Trump, the president of the United States, "has also expressed admiration for the reactionary French philosopher Charles Maurras, according to French media reports confirmed by Politico."[41]

## Works

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* 1889 : Théodore Aubanel
* 1891 : Jean Moréas
* 1894 : Le Chemin du Paradis, mythes et fabliaux
* 1896–1899 : Le voyage d'Athènes
* 1898 : L'Idée de la décentralisation
* 1899 : Trois idées politiques : Chateaubriand, Michelet, Sainte-Beuve
* 1900 : Enquête sur la monarchie
* 1901 : Anthinéa : d'Athènes à Florence (with Lettres des Jeux olympiques)
* 1902 : Les Amants de Venise, George Sand et Musset
* 1905 : L'Avenir de l'intelligence
* 1906 : Le Dilemme de Marc Sangnier
* 1910 : Si le coup de force est possible
* 1910 : Kiel et Tanger
* 1912 : La Politique religieuse
* 1914 : L'Action Française et la Religion Catholique
* 1915 : L'Étang de Berre
* 1916 : Quand les Français ne s'aimaient pas
* 1916–1918 : Les Conditions de la victoire, 4 volumes
* 1921 : Tombeaux
* 1922 : Inscriptions
* 1923 : Poètes
* 1924 : L'Allée des philosophes
* 1925 : La Musique intérieure
* 1925 : Barbarie et poésie
* 1927 : L'Action française et le Vatican
* 1927 : Lorsque Hugo eut les cent ans
* 1928 : Le prince des nuées
* 1928 : Un débat sur le romantisme
* 1928 : Vers un art intellectuel
* 1928 : L'Anglais qui a connu la France
* 1929 : Corps glorieux ou Vertu de la perfection
* 1929 : Promenade italienne
* 1929 : Napoléon pour ou contre la France
* 1930 : De Démos à César
* 1930 : Corse et Provence
* 1930 : Quatre nuits de Provence
* 1931 : Triptyque de Paul Bourget
* 1931 : Le Quadrilatère
* 1931 : Au signe de Flore
* 1932 : Heures immortelles

* 1932–1933 : Dictionnaire politique et critique, 5 volumes
* 1935 : Prologue d'un essai sur la critique
* 1937 : Quatre poèmes d'Eurydice
* 1937 : L'amitié de Platon
* 1937 : Jacques Bainville et Paul Bourget
* 1937 : Les vergers sur la mer
* 1937 : Jeanne d'Arc, Louis XIV, Napoléon
* 1937 : Devant l'Allemagne éternelle
* 1937 : Mes idées politiques
* 1937 : La Dentelle du Rempart
* 1940 : Pages africaines
* 1941 : Sous la muraille des cyprès
* 1941 : Mistral
* 1941 : La Seule France
* 1942 : De la colère à la justice
* 1943 : Pour un réveil français
* 1944 : Poésie et vérité
* 1944 : Paysages mistraliens
* 1944 : Le Pain et le Vin
* 1945 : Au-devant de la nuit
* 1945 : L'Allemagne et nous
* 1947 : Les Deux Justices ou Notre J'accuse
* 1948 : L'Ordre et le Désordre
* 1948 : Maurice Barrès
* 1948 : Une promotion de Judas
* 1948 : Réponse à André Gide
* 1949 : Au Grand Juge de France
* 1949 : Le Cintre de Riom
* 1950 : Mon jardin qui s'est souvenu
* 1950 : Le Mont de Saturne
* 1951 : Tragi-comédie de ma surdité
* 1951 : Vérité, justice, patrie (with Maurice Pujo)
* 1952 : À mes vieux oliviers
* 1952 : La Balance intérieure
* 1952 : Le Beau Jeu des reviviscences
* 1952 : Le Bienheureux Pie X, sauveur de la France
* 1953 : Pascal puni (published posthumously)
* 1958: Lettres de prison (1944–1952) (published posthumously)
* 1966: Lettres passe-murailles, correspondance échangée avec Xavier Vallat (1950–1952) (published posthumously)

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English translations

* 2016: The Future of the Intelligentsia & For a French Awakening, Arktos Media. ISBN 978-1910524985

## References

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1. ^ French Resistance 1940 - WW2 on YouTube
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Miguel Rojas-Mix, "Maurras en Amérique latine", Le Monde diplomatique, November 1980 (republished in Manières de voir n°95, "Les droites au pouvoir", October–November 2007)
3. ^ Stéphane Giocanti (2006). Charles Maurras : le chaos et l'ordre (in French). pp. 392–393.
4. ^ Giocanti, p. 444-447
5. ^ Octave Martin (alias Charles Maurras), "In the service of Hitler", Aspects of the France, 3 February 1949.
6. ^ a b Tucker, William R. (November 1955). The Legacy of Charles Maurras. Vol. 17\. University of Chicago Press, Southern Political Science Association. pp. 570–589\. doi:10.2307/2126615. JSTOR 2126615. S2CID 154447641. `{{cite book}}`: `|work=` ignored (help)
7. ^ "Charles Maurras | French writer and political theorist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
8. ^ Alain de Benoist (20 March 2007). "A Celebration of Conservative Politics in France". Kirkcenter.org.
9. ^ Pinkoski, Nathan (November 2019). "The Revenge of Maurras". First Things.
10. ^ "Macron criticized over comments on antisemitic figure Philippe Pétain". The Jerusalem Post. 30 December 2020.
11. ^ a b c d e f g h i Biographical notice on Maurras on the Académie française's website (in French)
12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Alain-Gérard Slama, "Maurras (1858 (sic)-1952): ou le mythe d'une droite révolutionnaire" Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, article first published in L'Histoire in 2002 (in French)
13. ^ a b c d e f Biographical notice Archived 9 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine on Maurras on the Action Française's website (in French)
14. ^ Pierrard, Pierre (1998), Les Chrétiens et l'affaire Dreyfus, Editions de l'Atelier, p. 180, ISBN 978-2-7082-3390-4, retrieved 7 March 2016
15. ^ Winock, Michel (dir.), Histoire de l'extrême droite en France (1993)
16. ^ Joly, Laurent (2006), "Les débuts de l'Action française (1899-1914) ou l'élaboration d'un nationalisme antisémite", Revue Historique, 308 (3 (639)): 695–718, doi:10.3917/rhis.063.0695, JSTOR 40957800
17. ^ Arnal, Oscar L. (15 April 1985), Ambivalent Alliance: The Catholic Church and the Action Française, 1899–1939, University of Pittsburgh Pre, p. 17, ISBN 978-0-8229-7705-6, retrieved 27 July 2017
18. ^ ""Ce n'est pas rien de tuer un homme" ou le crime politique de Germaine Berton". Radio France (in French). 29 August 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
19. ^ a b Duffy, Eamon (2014). Saints and Sinners : A History of the Popes. Yale University Press. p. 337.
20. ^ "Holy See Bans French Paper". Salt Lake Tribune. 10 January 1927. p. 1.
21. ^ a b Arnal, Oscar L., Ambivalent Alliance: The Catholic Church and the Action Française, 1899-1939, pp.174-75 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985).
22. ^ Action Française, 25 March 1938. Quoted in Leopold Schwarzschild, World in Trance (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943), p. 268.
23. ^ Bruno Goyet, Charles Maurras, Presses de Sciences Po, 1999, p.73
24. ^ François-Marin Fleutot, Des Royalistes dans la Résistance (Flammarion, 2000)
25. ^ Le Petit Marseillais, 9 February 1941. Quoted by Bruno Goyet, op.cit., p. 84
26. ^ Paxton, Robert O. (1972). Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 187\. ISBN 978-0-8041-5410-9. See footnote 10.
27. ^ Jean Sévillia, Historiquement correct, Tempus, 2006, p. 365
28. ^ Jean Madiran, Maurras toujours là, Consep, 2004, p.71–72
29. ^ In 1942, Rebatet published "Les Décombres" ("The Ruins"), a pamphlet in which he strongly opposed the "en-jewed" Action Française.
30. ^ See for example Henri Amouroux, La Vie des Français sous l'Occupation. T2: Les Années noires, Livre de Poche, 1961, p. 342;
Bruno Goyet, op.cit., p. 82;
Jean Sévillia, op.cit., p. 365
31. ^ Robert Paxton, La France de Vichy, Seuil, 1973, p. 246
32. ^ Robert Aron, Histoire de l'épuration (second volume), Fayard, 1969, p. 365, 366, 367.
Listing these irregularities, Robert Aron describes Maurras' trial as "one of the most pathetic and most characteristic of the épuration" (p. 362).
33. ^ Giocanti, p. 466
34. ^ Lettre de l'abbé Giraud à Charles Forot, 4 July 1958, archives départementales de Privas, dossier 24J25
35. ^ See, for example, this extract from his Dictionnaire politique et critique.
36. ^ McAuley, James. "Two Parisian bookstores, side by side, are waging a culture war". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
37. ^ Le Chemin du Paradis, 1894
38. ^ Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1997, New York: HarperCollins, p. 223
39. ^ Stanley G. Payne, Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931–1936, 1993, p. 171
40. ^ Sandra McGee Deutsch, Las Derechas, 1999, p. 197
41. ^ Michael, Crowley (March 2017). "The Man Who Wants to Unmake the West". Politico. Retrieved 6 June 2018.

## Further reading

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* Curtis, Michael (2010). Three Against the Third Republic: Sorel, Barrès and Maurras, Transaction Publishers.
* Kojecky, Roger (1972). "Charles Maurras and the Action Française," in T.S. Eliot's Social Criticism. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, pp. 58–69.
* Molnar, Thomas (1999). "Charles Maurras, Shaper of an Age," Modern Age 41 (4), pp. 337–342.
* Serina, Elena (2020). Nuovi elementi sul rapporto fra Action Française e Santa Sede: il ruolo di Louis Dimier nella difesa di Maurras, "Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo" (2), pp. 497–518.

## External links

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* Maurras.net online library : works of Charles Maurras (in French).
* Dreyfus Rehabilitated Archived 29 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine
* Newspaper clippings about Charles Maurras in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

* v
* t
* e

Charles Maurras

Main concepts|

* Antisémitisme d'État
* Compromis nationaliste
* Divine surprise
* Écologie intégrale
* Empirisme organisateur
* France seule
* Integral nationalism
* Maurrassisme
* Pays réel
* Pays légal
* Politique d'abord
* Politique naturelle

Political texts|

* L'Idée de la décentralisation (1898)
* Trois idées politiques (1898)
* Enquête sur la monarchie (1900)
* Auguste Comte (1905)
* L'Avenir de l'intelligence (1905)
* Le Dilemme de Marc Sangnier (1906)
* Kiel et Tanger (1910)
* Si le coup de force est possible (1910)
* La Politique religieuse (1912)
* L'Action française et la Religion catholique (1913)
* Mademoiselle Monk (1923)
* L'Action française et le Vatican (1927)
* La Lettre à Schrameck (1929)
* Napoléon, avec la France ou contre la France ? (1929)
* Méditation sur la politique de Jeanne d'Arc (1931)
* Devant l'Allemagne éternelle (1937)
* Mes idées politiques (1937)
* La Seule France (1941)
* Vers l'Espagne de Franco (1943)
* L'Allemagne et nous (1945)
* Votre bel aujourd'hui (1953)

Novels, collections and travelogues|

* Le Chemin de Paradis (1895)
* Lettres des Jeux olympiques (1896)
* Anthinéa (1901)
* Les Amants de Venise (1902)
* La Musique intérieure (1925)
* Quatre Nuits de Provence (1930)
* Le Mont de Saturne (1950)
* La Balance intérieure (1952)

Iconic places|

* Maison du chemin de Paradis
* Martigues
* Monument de la Victoire

Maurrassians|

* Pierre Boutang
* Pierre Debray
* Gérard Leclerc
* Victor Nguyen

See also|

* Cahiers Charles Maurras (1960-1978)
* Action Française, Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth-Century France (1962)
* Mao ou Maurras ? (1970)
* L'Âge d'or du maurrassisme (1971)
* Études maurrassiennes (1972-1986)
* Charles Maurras, l'Action française et la question sociale (1983)
* Maurras, la destinée et l’œuvre (1984)
* Aux origines de l'Action française (1991)
* Charles Maurras : le chaos et l'ordre (2006)
* L'Action française : culture, société, politique (2008-2012)

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* Jean Sirmond (1634)
* Jean de Montereul (1649)
* François Tallemant l'Aîné (1651)
* Simon de la Loubère (1693)
* Claude Sallier (1729)
* Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (1761)
* Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1784)
* Antoine-Vincent Arnault (1803)
* Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1816)
* Bon-Joseph Dacier (1822)
* Pierre François Tissot (1833)
* Félix Dupanloup (1854)
* Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1878)
* Alexandre Ribot (1906)
* Henri-Robert (1923)
* Charles Maurras (1938)
* Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix (1953)
* Léopold Sédar Senghor (1983)
* Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (2003)

* v
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Action Française

Key people|

| Before 1945|

* Jacques Bainville
* Léon Daudet
* Louis Dimier
* Charles Maurras
* Lucien Moreau
* Marius Plateau
* Maurice Pujo
* Georges Valois
* Henri Vaugeois
* George de Villebois-Mareuil

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After 1945|

* Pierre Boutang
* Pierre Pujo

Organisations|

* Camelots du Roi
* Cercle Proudhon

Related|

* Acción Española
* Hussards
* Je suis partout
* Maurrassisme
* La Nation française
* Philippe Daudet affair

Post war|

* Nouvelle Action Royaliste
* L'Action française 2000
* Restauration Nationale

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* e

Political philosophy

Terms|

* Authority
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* Duty
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* Balance of power
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* Night-watchman state
* Noble lie
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* Open society
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Philosophers|

| Antiquity|

* Aristotle
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* Han Fei
* Lactantius
* Mencius
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* Plato
* political philosophy
* Polybius
* Shang
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Middle Ages|

* Al-Farabi
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* Bruni
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* Ibn Khaldun
* Marsilius
* Muhammad
* Nizam al-Mulk
* Ockham
* Plethon
* Wang

Early modern
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* Boétie
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* Agamben
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Works|

* Republic (c. 375 BC)
* Politics (c. 350 BC)
* On the Republic (51 BC)
* Treatise on Law (c. 1274)
* Monarchy (1313)
* The Prince (1532)
* Leviathan (1651)
* Two Treatises of Government (1689)
* The Spirit of Law (1748)
* The Social Contract (1762)
* Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
* Rights of Man (1791)
* Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820)
* Democracy in America (1835–1840)
* The Communist Manifesto (1848)
* On Liberty (1859)
* The Revolt of the Masses (1929)
* The Road to Serfdom (1944)
* The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
* The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
* A Theory of Justice (1971)
* The End of History and the Last Man (1992)

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Far-right politics in France

Precursors|

* Bonald
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* de Gobineau
* de Maistre
* Drumont
* de Lapouge

Pre-1945 groups|

* Action Française
* Antisemitic League of France
* Breton National Party
* Camelots du Roi
* Croix-de-Feu
* Le Faisceau
* French National-Collectivist Party
* French Popular Party
* Greenshirts
* Jeunesses Patriotes
* La Cagoule
* Ligue des Patriotes
* Milice
* Mouvement Franciste
* National Popular Rally
* Revolutionary Social Movement
* Service d'ordre légionnaire
* Solidarité Française

Pre-1945 people|

* Barrès
* Bainville
* Benoist-Méchin
* Bonnard
* Brasillach
* Bucard
* Clémenti
* Coston
* Darnard
* Daudet
* Déat
* Deloncle
* Déroulède
* Dorgères
* Doriot
* Drieu La Rochelle
* Laval
* Maulnier
* Maurras
* Maxence
* Mitterrand
* Ousset
* Pétain
* Plateau
* Pujo
* Rebatet
* Vallat
* Vaugeois

Defunct
post-1945 groups|

* Action Française (post 1945)
* Charles Martel Group
* Europe-Action
* European Rally for Liberty
* Fédération d'action nationale et européenne
* Federation of Nationalist Students
* French and European Nationalist Party
* French Algerian Front
* Groupe Union Défense
* Jeune Nation
* L'Œuvre Française
* Nouvelle Résistance
* Occident
* UNIR
* Tixier-Vignancour Committees
* Ordre Nouveau
* Organisation armée secrète
* Party of New Forces
* Phalange Française
* Radical Network
* Rassemblement National Français
* Revolutionary Nationalist Groups
* Third Way
* Unité Radicale

Active groups|

* Action Française
* Adsav
* AGRIF
* Alsace First
* Association for the Defence of the Memory of Marshal Pétain
* Cité catholique
* Civitas
* Carrefour de l'Horloge
* Debout la France
* Equality and Reconciliation
* Europe-Jeunesse
* The Nationalists
* French Renewal
* Generation Identity
* GRECE
* League of the South
* National Council of European Resistance
* National Republican Movement
* Party of France
* National Rally
* Reconquête
* Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms
* Terre et Peuple
* The Patriots

Post-1945 people|

* Aliot
* Antony
* Ayoub
* Bardèche
* Bardella
* Bay
* Benedetti
* Binet
* Bompard
* Bouchet
* Bousquet
* Blot
* Brigneau
* Briois
* Camus
* Coston
* de Benoist
* de Lesquen
* Dior
* Duprat
* Faye
* Fredriksen
* Gollnisch
* Holeindre
* Jalkh
* Lang
* Le Gallou
* Le Pen (Jean-Marie)
* Le Pen (Marine)
* Luce
* Maribe
* Malliarakis
* Maréchal
* Mégret
* Ménard
* Messiha
* Philippot
* de Poncins
* Pujo
* Rachline
* Ravier
* Reynouard
* Saint-Loup
* Sidos
* Soral
* Stirbois
* Susini
* Tixier-Vignancour
* Venner
* Vial
* Zemmour

Ideologies and movements|

* Boulangisme
* Maurrassisme
* Nouvelle Droite
* Pétainism
* Révolution nationale

Active publications and media|

* Boulevard Voltaire
* Éléments
* Minute
* National-Hebdo
* Nouvelle École
* Présent
* Radio Courtoisie
* Rivarol
* TV Libertés

Notable events|

* Dreyfus affair
* Franco-Prussian War (Revanchism)
* 6 February 1934 crisis
* Vichy France
* Algerian War (Algiers putsch of 1961)

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Schools
by region|

| International|

* Authoritarian
* Corporatist
* Cultural
* Fiscal
* Green
* Liberal
* Moderate
* National
* Paternalistic
* Populist
* Pragmatic
* Progressive
* Reactionary
* Religious
* Social
* Traditionalist
* Ultra

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Asia|

| China|

* Chiangism
* Confucianism
* Neo
* New
* Dai Jitao Thought
* Neoauthoritarianism

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Iran|

* Khomeinism
* Monarchist
* Principlist

Israel|

* Fundamentalist
* Jewish
* Kahanism
* Zionism
* Neo
* Religious
* Revisionist

Japan|

* Minzoku
* Neo
* Nippon Kaigi
* Shōwa Statism
* State Shinto

South Korea|

* Ilminism
* New Right

Turkey|

* Democratic
* Erdoğanism
* Neo-Ottomanism

Other|

* Bangladesh
* Hong Kong
* India
* Malaysia
* Pakistan
* Ziaism
* Singapore
* Taiwan
* Chiangism

Europe|

| France|

* Action Française
* Bonapartism
* Gaullism
* Integral nationalism
* Legitimism
* Maurrassisme
* Nouvelle Droite
* Orléanism
* Révolution nationale
* Sarkozysm
* Ultra-royalism

|

Germany|

* Agrarian
* Hegelian
* Historical School
* Neue Rechte
* Ordoliberalism
* Prussianism
* Cameralistic
* Socialist
* Revolutionary
* Young
* Ritter School
* Romanticism
* State Socialism
* Völkisch

Italy|

* Berlusconism
* Historical Right
* Italian school of elitism
* Neo-Bourbonism
* Sanfedismo

Poland|

* Golden Liberty
* Kaczyzm
* Monarchist
* National Democracy
* Sarmatism

Russia|

* Duginism
* Eurasianism
* Monarchist
* Black-hundredism
* Tsarism
* Putinism
* Slavophilia
* Pochvennichestvo

Spain|

* Alfonsism
* Carlism
* Carloctavismo
* Carlo-francoism
* Francoism
* National Catholicism
* Integrism
* Mellismo
* Maurism
* Neocatholicism
* Noucentisme

United
Kingdom|

* Cameronism
* Civic
* Compassionate
* Muscular liberalism
* Jacobitism
* Neo-Jacobite Revival
* Neo
* One-nationism
* Powellism
* Thatcherism
* Toryism
* High
* Red
* Social

Other|

* Austria
* Belgium
* Rexism
* Denmark
* Finland
* Georgia
* Monarchist
* Greece
* Metaxism
* Populist
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Portugal
* Miguelist
* Integralismo Lusitano
* Romania
* Monarchist
* Serbia
* Monarchist
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine

Latin America|

| Argentina|

* Federal Peronism
* Maurrasismo
* Menemism
* Nacionalismo
* Orthodox Peronism

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Brazil|

* Bolsonarism
* Coronelism
* Integralism
* Janismo
* Monarchist
* Patrianovism
* Populism

Chile|

* Gremialismo
* Pinochetism

Other|

* Belize
* Colombia
* Rojismo
* Uribism
* Cuba
* Guatemala
* Mexico
* Cristero
* Panama
* Peru
* Fujimorism
* Odriismo
* Uruguay
* Herrerism
* Riverism
* Ruralismo
* Venezuela
* Perezjimenismo

North America|

| Canada|

* Populism
* Trumpism
* Clerico-nationalism
* Social
* Toryism
* Blue
* Red
* Pink

|

United
States|

* Compassionate
* Libertarian
* Fusionism
* Paleo
* Tea Party
* Movement
* Neo
* Old Right
* Paleo
* Reaganism
* Social
* Traditionalist
* Trumpism

Oceania|

* Australia
* Centre Right
* National Right
* New Zealand

Philosophy|

| Principles|

* Ancestral worship
* Authority
* Traditional
* Class collaboration
* Consociationalism
* Clericalism
* Collective identity
* Confessionalism
* Cultural assimilation
* Cultural heritage
* Cultural values
* Culture of life
* Pro-Life
* Discipline
* Duty
* Elitism
* Aristocracy
* Meritocracy
* Noblesse oblige
* Ethical order
* Familialism
* Family values
* Fundamentalism
* Gender role
* Complementarianism
* Honour
* Imperialism
* Loyalty
* Monarchism
* Royalist
* Natural law
* Natural Order
* Norms
* Conventions
* Customs
* Mores
* Ordered liberty
* Organicism
* Organized religion
* Orthodoxy
* Patriotism
* Nationalism
* Personalism
* Philosophical realism
* Moral realism
* Private property
* Protectionism
* Public morality
* Rule of law
* Social hierarchy
* Social institutions
* Social order
* Solidarity
* Sovereignty
* State religion
* Stewardship
* Subsidiarity
* Tradition

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Intellectuals|

* Bainville
* Barruel
* Belloc
* Bonald
* Buckley Jr.
* Burke
* Burnham
* Carlyle
* Chateaubriand
* Chesterton
* Coleridge
* Comte
* Cortés
* Dávila
* Dostoevsky
* Eliot
* Evola
* Fardid
* Gentz
* Haller
* Hitchens
* Hume
* Iorga
* Johnson
* Jünger
* Karamzin
* Kirk
* Kuehnelt-Leddihn
* La Mennais
* Le Bon
* Le Play
* Leontiev
* Lewis
* Maistre
* Mansfield
* Maurras
* Menéndez
* More
* Müller
* Newman
* Nisbet
* Novalis
* Oakeshott
* Corrêa de Oliveira
* Peterson
* Ranke
* Renan
* Rivarol
* Röpke
* Santayana
* Savigny
* Schlegel
* Schmitt
* Scruton
* Solzhenitsyn
* Sowell
* Spann
* Spengler
* Stahl
* Strauss
* Taine
* Tocqueville
* Uvarov
* Voegelin

Politics|

| Organisations|

* European Conservatives and Reformists Party
* European People's Party
* Identity and Democracy
* International Democrat Union
* International Monarchist League
* Muslim Brotherhood
* Tradition, Family, Property

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Politicians|

* Abe
* Adams
* Adenauer
* Andreotti
* Berlusconi
* Bismarck
* Bolsonaro
* GW Bush
* Canning
* Chiang
* Churchill
* Diefenbaker
* Disraeli
* Dmowski
* Dollfuss
* Erdoğan
* Franco
* Fujimori
* de Gaulle
* Harper
* Horthy
* John Paul II
* Kaczyński
* Khamenei
* Khomeini
* Kohl
* Le Pen
* Lee
* Macdonald
* Mannerheim
* Marcos
* Maurras
* Menzies
* Metaxas
* Metternich
* Mobutu
* Modi
* Netanyahu
* Orbán
* Park
* Pérez Jiménez
* Pinochet
* Pitt
* Powell
* Prat de la Riba
* Putin
* Reagan
* Salazar
* Salisbury
* Smith
* Stolypin
* Suharto
* Thatcher
* Trujillo
* Trump
* Vajpayee
* de Valera
* Zia
* Zemmour

Religion|

* Christian democracy
* Christian politics
* Theonomy
* Christian right
* Theoconservatism
* Confucianism
* Hindutva
* Jewish conservatism
* Religious Zionism
* Islamism
* Islamic economics
* Theravada
* Buddhist economics
* Traditionalist Catholicism
* Catholic social teaching
* Distributism
* Integralism
* Ultramontanism
* Traditionalist School

Historical
background|

* Ancien régime
* Bourbon Restauration
* Congress of Vienna
* Concert of Europe
* Conservative Order
* Counter-Enlightenment
* German Romanticism
* Holy Alliance
* Ultra-royalism

Related|

| Ideologies|

* Agrarianism
* Clerical fascism
* Communitarianism
* Conservative liberalism
* Corporatism
* Localism

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* Anti-communism
* Anti-gender movement
* Anti-Masonry
* Aristocracy
* Black conservatism
* United States
* Desecularization
* Postsecularism
* Conservative feminism
* Conservative wave
* Counter-revolutionary
* Elite theory
* Ethnopluralism
* Hispanic and Latino conservatism in the United States
* LGBTQ conservatism
* Neo-feudalism
* Neo-medievalism
* Opposition to LGBTQ rights
* Para-fascism
* Political Evangelicalism in Latin America
* Political theology
* Radical right
* Europe
* United States
* Reactionary
* Neo-
* Right realism
* Right-wing politics
* Authoritarianism
* New
* European
* Small-c conservatives

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Key people|

| Before 1945|

* Jacques Bainville
* Léon Daudet
* Louis Dimier
* Charles Maurras
* Lucien Moreau
* Marius Plateau
* Maurice Pujo
* Georges Valois
* Henri Vaugeois
* George de Villebois-Mareuil

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After 1945|

* Pierre Boutang
* Pierre Pujo

Organisations|

* Camelots du Roi
* Cercle Proudhon

Related|

* Acción Española
* Hussards
* Je suis partout
* Maurrassisme
* La Nation française
* Philippe Daudet affair

Post war|

* Nouvelle Action Royaliste
* L'Action française 2000
* Restauration Nationale

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Japan
* Italy
* Australia
* Czech Republic
* Spain
* Portugal
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Latvia
* Croatia
* Greece
* Sweden
* Poland
* Vatican
* Israel
* Catalonia
* Belgium

Academics|

* CiNii

Artists|

* FID

People|

* Trove
* Deutsche Biographie
* DDB

Other|

* IdRef
* SNAC
* Yale LUX

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