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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Bernard Faÿ
- Bernard Faÿ (French pronunciation: ?[b??na? fa.i]; 3 April 1893, Paris – 31 December 1978, Tours) was a French historian of Franco-American relations, an anti-Masonic polemicist who believed in a worldwide Jewish-Freemason conspiracy (see: Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory), and, during World War II, a Vichy official. Faÿ had first-hand knowledge of the United States, having studied at Harvard, and translated into French an excerpt of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and wrote his view of the United States as it was at the beginning of Franklin D.
- Roosevelt's administration.
- He also published studies of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.Faÿ was a friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B.
- Toklas and of the American composer Virgil Thomson, who owed to Faÿ his access to French intellectual circles, for Faÿ knew most of the people in musical and literary Paris.
- He was active in compiling files on and attacking and imprisoning Freemasons during the Vichy regime, 1940–44.
- He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
- He escaped after five years and resumed teaching history in Switzerland, in Fribourg, Ouchy and Lutry.
- M.
- Fäy taught European History, American History and Cultural History. In one of his weekly podcasts, the celebrated Catholic historian Charles A.
- Coulombe referred to Faÿ's Louis XVI ou la fin d'un monde as some of the "best stuff" he ever read on the French revolution.
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