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Maurice Barres
(
19 August
1862 ?
4 December
1923) wis a French
novelist
,
journalist
, an
socialist
politeecian
an
agitator
kent for his
naitionalist
an
antisemitic
views.
In his youth a
Boulangist
deputy, he progressively developed a theory close tae
Romantic naitionalism
an shiftit tae the traditionalist richt durin the
Dreyfus Affair
, leadin the Anti-Dreyfusards alangside
Charles Maurras
. In 1906, he wis electit baith tae the
Academie francaise
an as deputy o the
Seine
, an till his daith he sat wi the conservative
Entente republicaine democratique
. A strang supporter o the
Union sacree
(Haly Union) durin
Warld War I
, Barres remained a major influence on generations o French writers, as well as on monarchists, altho he wis no a monarchist hissel.