biography
pronunciation:
[mohras]
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| lived:
| (1868–1952)
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| biography:
| Writer, journalist, critic, and political theorist, born in Martigues, S France. Son of a tax collector, he was raised by the Frères (Brothers). He studied at the Collège de Sacré-Coeur in Aix-en-Provence, where in 1880 he contracted an illness which left him permanently deaf. In 1891 in Paris he founded, with Jean Moréas, the école romane, a group of young poets opposed to the Symbolists. His writings include the critical work, Poésie et Vérité on Romanticism, Les Amants de Venise on George Sand and Alfred de Musset (1902), and the short stories Le Voyage d'Athènes (1901). A monarchist, he wrote Enquête sur la monarchie (1900) and L'Avenir de l'intelligence (1905). In 1899 he co-founded the review L'Action Française which, with the help of Léon Daudet, became a daily newspaper in 1908, the organ of the Royalist Party. During the German occupation in World War 2, he supported the Pétain government, and was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945, but released in 1952 through illness. Received into the Académie Française in 1938, he was expelled in 1945. |
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