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
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)
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
Maurice Barrès
…elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889 as a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life. He presided over the Ligue des Patriotes from 1914 until his death in 1923. Barrès was associated in his literary works with Symbolism, a movement which had equivalence with British Aestheticism…
Emblem by Antonin Mercié (1883)
Ligue des Patriotes members in 1912