Ligue des Patriotes
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The League of Patriots was a French far-right league, founded in 1882 by the nationalist poet Paul Déroulède, historian Henri Martin and politician Félix Faure. The Ligue began as a non-partisan natio
Emblem by Antonin Mercié (1883)
Ligue des Patriotes members in 1912
Maurice Barrès
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Auguste-Maurice Barrès was an anti-Semitic French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work T
Ligue des Patriotes
…from its positions, Paul Déroulède was sentenced to exile from France for 10 years; the Ligue was again dissolved. Nevertheless, the nationalist author Maurice Barrès became again its leader in 1914, at the eve of World War I. Upon Barrès's death, General Édouard de Castelnau became leader, with Alexandre Millerand…
Autochrome of Barrès, 1918
Portrait of a young Maurice Barrès
Les Déracinés, published in 1897
'The lies of Maurice Barrès' - Answer to the police complaint by Maurice Barrès by Louis Galau and his group (courtesy of Archives anarchistes)