Charles Maurras

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Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (; 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, medievalist, conservative, corporatist, integralist, nationalist and counter-revolutionary. Maurras was staunchly against capitalism, communism, Freemasonry, liberalism, Islam, Jews, Nazism and Protestantism. His ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and integral nationalism, and led to the political doctrine of Maurrassisme. While raised Roman Catholic, Maurras went deaf and became an agnostic in his youth, but remained anti-secularist and supported the Catholic Church solely for political reasons. 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 papal condemnation of Action Française. In 1927, several of Maurras's works were put...

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