Maurice Barrès, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maurice Barrès

French novelist

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1862

Place of Birth: Charmes, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1923

Profession: writer, politician, journalist, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Maurice Barrès

  • Auguste-Maurice Barrès (French: [ba??s]; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist and politician.
  • Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888.
  • In politics, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889 as a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life. Barrès was associated in his literary works with Symbolism, a movement which had equivalence with British Aestheticism and Italian Decadentism; indeed he was a close associate of Gabriele d'Annunzio representing the latter.
  • As the name of his trilogy suggests, his works glorified a humanistic love of the self and he also flirted with occult mysticisms in his youth.
  • The Dreyfus affair saw an ideological shift from a liberal individualism rooted in the French Revolution to a more collectivist and organic concept of the nation, advocating for corporatism and an organic society, he also became a leading anti-Dreyfusard popularising the term nationalisme to describe his views.
  • He stood on a platform of "Nationalism and Protectionism.".
  • Politically, he became involved with various groups such as the Ligue des Patriotes of Paul Déroulède, which he became the leader of in 1914.
  • Barrès was close to Charles Maurras, the founder of Action Française, a monarchist party.
  • Despite the fact that he remained a republican, Barrès would have a strong influence on various following French monarchists, as well as various other figures.
  • During the First World War, he was a strong supporter of the Union Sacrée political truce.
  • In later life, Barrès returned to the Catholic faith and was involved in a campaign to restore French church buildings and helped establish 24 June as a national day of remembrance for St.
  • Joan of Arc.

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