Maurras

/ mora /

noun

MaurrasCharles18681952MFrenchWRITING: writerPOLITICS: political theorist Charles (ʃarl). 1868–1952, French writer and political theorist, who founded (1899) the extreme right-wing group L'Action Français: sentenced (1945) to life imprisonment for supporting Pétain during World War II

One of those writers, Charles Maurras, had corresponded with Proust in the 1890s, until the Affair severed their relations.

Let me quote a few lines from Maurras, so lucid a writer when not under the spell of his fixed idea.

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