biography
pronunciation:
[masees]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1886–1970)
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| biography:
| Critic and writer, born in Paris, France. He began with studies on Zola and Barrès, then worked on L'Opinion. Using the pseudonym Agathon, he published Les Jeunes Gens d'Aujourd'hui (1910). A convinced Thomist, with Jacques Bainville he established La Revue Universelle in 1920, and continued to write critical studies, some of which were reissued in D'André Gide à Marcel Proust. Other works include Impressions de guerre 1914–1915 (1916), Défense de l'Occident (1927) against Orientalism, Evocations-Souvenirs 1905–1911 (1931), and Maurras et notre temps (1961). He was admitted to the Académie Française in 1960. |
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