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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 organizer and principal philosopher of Action Française, a political movement that is monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary. Maurras also held anti-communist, anti-Masonic, anti-Protestant, and antisemitic views, while being highly critical of Nazism, referring to it as "stupidity". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Maurras has received more than 624,215 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Charles Maurras is the 899th most popular writer (up from 910th in 2019), the 1,062nd most popular biography from France (down from 1,015th in 2019) and the 139th 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

Among writers, Charles Maurras ranks 899 out of 5,755Before him are Bertran de Born, Publilius Syrus, John Updike, B. Traven, Jean de La Bruyère, and Stefan George. After him are John Grisham, Daniel Goleman, Samuel Richardson, Noah Gordon, Aziz Nesin, and Gregory Skovoroda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Charles Maurras ranks 38Before him are Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Josephine Bakhita, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, La Belle Otero, and Stefan George. After him are Émile Bernard, Alexandra David-Néel, Felix Hausdorff, Eleanor H. Porter, James Brendan Connolly, and Koloman Moser. Among people deceased in 1952, Charles Maurras ranks 24Before him are Paramahansa Yogananda, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jürgen Stroop, Kiichiro Toyoda, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, and Robert Guérin. After him are Hattie McDaniel, George Santayana, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Sveinn Björnsson, and Rudolf Slánský.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Maurras ranks 1,062 out of 6,011Before him are Léon Bonnat (1833), Augustin Robespierre (1763), Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763), Wilfred the Hairy (840), and John, Duke of Berry (1340). After him are Louis-Jules Trochu (1815), Jean de Dunois (1402), Michèle Morgan (1920), Arnulf of Metz (582), Madame de La Fayette (1634), and Jacques Rivette (1928).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Charles Maurras ranks 139Before him are Éric Zemmour (1958), Jean de Joinville (1224), Eugène Scribe (1791), Jacques Clément (1567), Bertran de Born (1140), and Jean de La Bruyère (1645). After him are Madame de La Fayette (1634), Georges Bernanos (1888), André Bazin (1918), Jules Renard (1864), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838).