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He was born in Martigues in the Bouches-du-Rhone département in the south of France and brought up in a Catholic, monarchist environment. In his early teens he became profoundly deaf, and subsequently lost his faith. At the age of seventeen he came to Paris and worked on a number of periodicals including La Cocarde (The Cockade), a republican review which supported Georges Boulanger, and the Catholic Observateur français. He reported on the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896Events January 4 Utah is admitted as the 45th U. January 5 An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Rontgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 H. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 18 The X-ray machine is exhib.
He became involved in politics at the time of the Dreyfus affairThe Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France for many years during the late 19th century. It centered on the 1894 treason conviction of Alfred Dreyfus a Jewish artillery officer in the French army. Dreyfus was, in fact, innocent: the co, and in 1899 he joined the Action Française founded by Maurice PujoMaurice Pujo ( 26 January 1872 6 September 1955) was a French journalist and co-founder, with Henri Vaugeois in 1898, of the Comite d'Action Francaise which subsequently became the nationalist and monarchist Action Francaise movement. Pujo, Maurice Pujo, and Henri Vaugeois the preceding year. Maurras quickly became influential in the movement, and converted Pujo and Vaugeois to monarchism, which became the movement's principal cause. With Léon DaudetLeon Daudet ( 1867 1942) was a French author and an active Monarchist. He was the son of the novelist Alphonse Daudet. He was born in Paris. He vocally criticized the French Third Republic, and democracy in general. Together with Charles Maurras, he co-fo he edited the movement's review La Revue de l'Action française, which in 19081908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January 1 A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time January 8 A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue T became a daily newspaper with the simpler title L'Action française.
He supported France's entry into the First World WarWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of (even to the extent of supporting the thoroughly republican Georges ClemenceauGeorges Clemenceau ( September 28, 1841 November 24, 1929) was a French doctor, journalist and statesman. Clemenceau was born in Mouilleron-en-Pareds, in the departement of Vendee, in France. In his early years in Paris, he was a political activist, publi), but was ambivalent about the Second World War. He described the Pétain's accession to power as a "divine surprise". Under the occupation, he opposed both the collaborators in Paris and the "dissidents" in London. He later claimed he believed that Pétain was playing a "double game", working for an Allied victory in secret. Both Pétain and De Gaulle were influenced by his philosophy of integralism. He was arrested in September 1944, and sentenced to death for collaboration. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, deprivation of civil liberties and expulsion from the Académie française. He responded by exclaiming, "C'est la revanche de Dreyfus!" (It's Dreyfus' revenge). Imprisoned in Riom and then Clairvaux, he was reprieved in 1952 and placed under surveillance in a clinic, where he died on November 16, 1952 - returning to Catholicism shortly before his death.