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Barrès

[ ba-res ]

noun

  1. Mau·rice [moh-, rees], 1862–1923, French novelist, writer on politics, and politician.


Barrès

/ barɛs /

noun

  1. BarrèsMaurice18621923MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: essayistPOLITICS: politician Maurice (mɔris). 1862–1923, French novelist, essayist, and politician: a fervent nationalist and individualist


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It is a worldview that takes its name from the French nationalist writer, contemporary of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurice Barrès.

In this same field Basile Barrès also achieved unusual fame.

Perhaps the best writer among "devout" Academicians is Maurice Barrès.

M. Barrès says that what lies at the bottom of it is a 'passion de collectionner les belles énergies.'

To judge from M. Barrès, writing dithyrambically of Beyle's 'sentiment d'honneur,' that is his true claim to greatness.

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