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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MAURRAS

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PRONUNCIATION OF MAURRAS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAURRAS

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Maurras is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MAURRAS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Charles Maurras

Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras was a French author, poet, and critic. He was a leader and principal thinker of Action Française, a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary. Maurras' ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and "nationalisme intégral". A major tenet of integral nationalism was put forth by Maurras as "a true nationalist places his country above everything". A political theorist, a major intellectual influence in early 20th-century Europe, his views anticipated some of the ideas of fascism.

Definition of Maurras in the English dictionary

The definition of Maurras in the dictionary is Charles. 1868–1952, French writer and political theorist, who founded the extreme right-wing group L'Action Français: sentenced to life imprisonment for supporting Pétain during World War II.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAURRAS

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Maupertuis
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WORDS THAT END LIKE MAURRAS

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Synonyms and antonyms of Maurras in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Моррас
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मौरस
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Моррас
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAURRAS»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAURRAS»

Discover the use of Maurras in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Maurras and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Three Against the Third Republic: Sorel, Barrès and Maurras
The names and parties may have changed but the same ideas continue to impact French politics and western ideology today. This is a key book for an epoch whose importance lingers in current discourse.
Michael Curtis, 1959
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Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of ...
At the time of the Dreyfus Affair and the start of the Action Française, Charles Maurras pressed forward the idea, borrowed from Auguste Comte, of an alliance between Positivists and Catholics.
Michael Sutton, 2002
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T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888–1922
In spite of his condemnation of romanticism, Maurras's own literary works have been described as — indeed — romantic! Julien Benda, in Belphegor (1918), writes: "In Anthinea [1901], and L'Avenir de L' Intelligence [1905] [two of Maurras's ...
James E. Miller Jr.
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A Life Composed: T.S. Eliot and the Morals of Modernism
Kenneth Asher has depicted the Maurrasian influence as dominating not only Eliot's political ideas but all other aspects of his thought, and indeed this dedication seems to make a statement in support of Maurras (although it points rather to ...
André Schüller, 2002
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French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the ...
I wanted to avoid the intervention of the foreigner" (Le Proces de Charles Maurras Paris: Albin Michel, 1946], 26). He also claimed that he had repeatedly urged a rapid and severe repression of all dissidents only "to reestablish order, so that ...
David Carroll, 1998
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French VII Bibliography: Bibliography of Critical and ...
Bourgoin, Daniel R.: "Charles Maurras et Alphonse Séché," Cahiers Cltarles Mourras, no. 13 (1964), 37-48. [BLFM] See also 51662. 50376. Calzant, Georges: " Charles Maurras. la littérature et l'homme de combat [à propos d'un exemplaire  ...
Modern Language Association of America. Bibliography Committee for French VII (Contemporary Literature), French Institute in the United States, 1949
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A History of Western Political Thought
Maurras's attack on all the 'wait and see' schools of political thinking puts him in with stranger bedfellows than Lenin. The emerging fascist parties of the 1920s also hoped eventually to celebrate the 'triumph of the will'. Maurras himself was ...
Dr J S Mcclelland, 2005
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Maurice Blondel, Social Catholicism, and Action Française: ...
sequent editions of his work where he gives apologetic primacy to overcoming the obstacles that blocked Maurras and his fellow agnostics from accepting the truths of faith. In the first section, Descoqs delineated the limits of Maurras's positiv- ...
Peter J. Bernardi, 2009
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The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought
90,000 to 40,000 (35,000 of which were subscription sales) between 1926 and 1933. Only in 1939 did the next pope, Pius XII, rescind the condemnation of the paper (but not of Maurras's books), perhaps in an effort to unify the Catholic world , ...
Lawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly, 2006
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Guardians of the Humanist Legacy: The Classicism of T.S. ...
4.1.6 French influences In his book on T.S. Eliot and Ideology,58 Asher connects the notion of classicism exclusively to reactionary French thinking and the circle around Charles Maurras and the Action Française. Indeed Eliot in some ways ...
Jeroen Vanheste, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAURRAS»

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From Left Bank to left behind: where have the great French thinkers …
... Louis de Bonald and later Charles Maurras was just as abstract (if not more so). Equally widespread is the passion for considering questions ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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The Return of Napoleon Bonaparte
... supported Bonaparte would become the launching pad for Action Français and its newspaper, directed by Charles Maurras, whose followers ... «CounterPunch, Jun 15»
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Jean Zay, Resistance Fighter and Cannes Founder, Enters the …
The novelist Louis Ferdinand Céline believed the Sorbonne had been “turned into a ghetto by the Jew Zay,” while Charles Maurras, founder of ... «Jewish Daily Forward, May 15»
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A Dialogue with Jacques Cheminade
These rotten elites hated the Republic, and they hated their own people. For them, as Charles Maurras said, the Nazi invasion was a "divine ... «Executive Intelligence Review, Apr 15»
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The Ghosts of Sigmaringen
... of 1789 and the subsequent “anti-France” (in the memorable phrase of Charles Maurras). He became part-monrach, part-father of the nation. «A Magazine of American Culture, Apr 15»
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Bernard-Henri Levy: In defense of Angela Merkel
... Barres who saw in Kantianism the vehicle the “Jewification” of European minds; that triumphed with Charles Maurras of the Action Française ... «Kyiv Post, Apr 15»
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French Philosopher Bernard-Henri LéVy in Defense of Angela Merkel
It triumphed with Charles Maurras' Action Française and its protracted war with “Jewish and Germanic abstractions.” And it culminated with the ... «Jewish Business News, Apr 15»
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Peter FitzSimons' double standard; David Hicks in Fairfax Media …
٠ Some members associated with the Campion Society and the Catholic Worker were influenced by Action Francaise and Charles Maurras. «The Australian, Feb 15»
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The Rise of Marine Le Pen
To Martigny, comparisons between the Front National ideology and the writings of Charles Maurras and Maurice Barrès, who theorized French ... «World Policy Institute, Feb 15»
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What, exactly, is going on?
As the journalist Charles Maurras wrote, approvingly, in 1911: “Everything seems impossible, or frighteningly difficult, without the providential ... «Arutz Sheva, Jan 15»

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