Maurice Barrès

Maurice Barrès was born on 19 August 1862 in Charmes, in the Vosges, and kept from the defeat of 1870, seen in his childhood, the desire to return Alsace and Lorraine to France. After the lycée in Nancy, he came to Paris to study law and turned to letters. Elected deputy for Nancy in 1889, at twenty-seven, he moved from individualism to nationalism and took his place among the leaders of the anti-Dreyfusards. Elected to the Académie française on 25 January 1906, deputy for Paris from 1906 to 1923, he presided from 1914 over the Ligue des patriotes and died at Neuilly-sur-Seine on 4 December 1923.

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• NovelLes DéracinésMaurice Barrès · 1897not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain