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Charles Maurras

1868 - 1952

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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, 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, and led to the political doctrine of Maurrassisme. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Maurras is the 765th most popular writer (up from 815th in 2019), the 905th most popular biography from France (up from 947th in 2019) and the 119th most popular French Writer.

Charles Maurras was a French writer and politician who is most famous for his nationalist, monarchist, anti-Semitic, and anti-communist views.

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Among writers, Charles Maurras ranks 765 out of 7,302. Before him are Dio Chrysostom, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Arto Paasilinna, Maurus Servius Honoratus, Harry Mulisch, and V. S. Naipaul. After him are Neal Cassady, Bernhard Schlink, Ban Gu, Pierre Boulle, Christoph Martin Wieland, and Heliodorus of Emesa.

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Among people born in 1868, Charles Maurras ranks 32. Before him are Gaston Leroux, Gustav Meyrink, August Horch, Felix Hoffmann, Dietrich Eckart, and Edmond Rostand. After him are Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie S. D. Maunder, Louis Couturat, Vittorio Monti, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Huo Yuanjia. Among people deceased in 1952, Charles Maurras ranks 21. Before him are Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Paramahansa Yogananda, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Ferenc Molnár, Kiichiro Toyoda, and Jürgen Stroop. After him are Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, George Santayana, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Charles Scott Sherrington, and Hattie McDaniel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Maurras ranks 905 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Marie Balestre (1921), Theuderic II (587), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Joan the Lame (1293), Lucien Laurent (1907), and Gérard Mourou (1944). After him are Georges Rouault (1871), Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764), Pierre Boulle (1912), Alix of France (1151), Célestin Freinet (1896), and Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Charles Maurras ranks 119. Before him are Marie de France (1101), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Edmond Rostand (1868), Jean Froissart (1337), Antoine Galland (1646), and Edmond de Goncourt (1822). After him are Pierre Boulle (1912), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Jean Anouilh (1910), Max Jacob (1876), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), and Theodore Beza (1519).

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