Awarded Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century for The Sacred Hill (1950).
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Maurice Barrès
Auguste-Maurice Barrès was a French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1906.
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culture · French novelist and philosopher(1862–1923) · writer · politician · novelist · journalist · also Maurice Barrès, Maurice Barrés, Auguste-Maurice Barrès, Maurice Barres, Auguste-Maurice Barres, Barrès
Born 19 August 1862 · Died 4 December 1923 · Q314957
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1950· 1 entry
1923· 3 entries
Died 1923-12-04.
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“Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur.”
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“Opis: fragment tekstu krytycznoliterackiego na temat Au service de l’Allemagne.”
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1922· 1 entry
Triggering what would be called la querelle de l'Oronte (the Orontes Quarrel)
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1914· 1 entry
Became the leader of the Patriot League
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1908· 1 entry
Opposed in Parliament his friend and political opponent Jean Jaurès, refusing the Socialist leader's will to Pantheonize the writer Émile Zola
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1906· 1 entry
Career landmark: seat 4 of the Académie française (1906–1923).
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1905· 1 entry
To the Académie Française, but was supplanted by Etienne Lamy
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1904· 1 entry
Awarded Alfred Née Award (1904).
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1897· 2 entries
As a nationalist anti-Semitic candidate, having broken with the left-wing during the Dreyfus Affair
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Le Roman de l'énergie nationale (Novel of the National Energy), with the publication of Les Déracinés
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1894· 1 entry
(September 1894 – March 1895) to defend his ideas, attempting to bridge the gap between the far-left and the far-right
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1893· 1 entry
Wanted to get elected deputy in Neuilly
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1892· 1 entry
1893 and 1902, capturing his vision of the country in his writings, taking a particular interest in Toledo
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1889· 2 entries
As a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life
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At the age of 27, under a platform of "Nationalism, Protectionism, and Socialism", retaining his seat in the legislature until 1893, when he was defeated under the etiquette of "National Republican and Socialist" (Républ
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-08-19.
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