Thierry Maulnier (born Jacques Talagrand;[1] 1 October 1909, Alès â€"
9 January 1988, Marnes-la-Coquette) was a French journalist, essayist,
dramatist, and literary critic. He was married to theatre director
Marcelle Tassencourt.A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in
the same class as Roger Vailland, Robert Brasillach, and Maurice
Bardèche. While still a student, Maulnier became active in the
integralist Action Française, and published in Charles Maurras'
newspaper (L'Action française). He made a career in journalism and
took part in the movement of the Non-conformists of the 1930s,
inspired by the personalist generation of young intellectuals who
shared some of the ideals of the Action Française, holding right-wing
beliefs as an answer to a "crisis of civilization" and materialism. He
also campaigned against democracy and capitalism, advocating a union
of the right and left to overthrow the two.[2] Thierry Maulnier
associated with youth periodicals such as Réaction, La Revue du
Siècle, and La Revue française; he also wrote his first volume, La
crise est dans l'homme ("Crisis Is in Man").In 1934, he authored, with
Jean-Pierre Maxence, the manifesto Demain la France ("Tomorrow,
France"). Maxence and Maulnier also founded the weekly L'Insurgé in
1936 lasting only a few months, the magazine circulated nationalist
tenets, reviewed in Maulnier's 1938 essay Au-delà du nationalisme
("Beyond Nationalism"). At the same time, he joined Jean de Fabrègues
in the creation of a more analytical paper, Combat, one which would be
published until France's defeat in World War II.A regular contributor
to L'Action française since 1938, Maulnier continued to publish after
Nazi Germany's occupation of France (from 1940); he also started
writing for Le Figaro. He ceased writing for the paper after the start
of Operation Torch in 1942, and remained a journalist for Le Figaro
from 1945 until his death.
9 January 1988, Marnes-la-Coquette) was a French journalist, essayist,
dramatist, and literary critic. He was married to theatre director
Marcelle Tassencourt.A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in
the same class as Roger Vailland, Robert Brasillach, and Maurice
Bardèche. While still a student, Maulnier became active in the
integralist Action Française, and published in Charles Maurras'
newspaper (L'Action française). He made a career in journalism and
took part in the movement of the Non-conformists of the 1930s,
inspired by the personalist generation of young intellectuals who
shared some of the ideals of the Action Française, holding right-wing
beliefs as an answer to a "crisis of civilization" and materialism. He
also campaigned against democracy and capitalism, advocating a union
of the right and left to overthrow the two.[2] Thierry Maulnier
associated with youth periodicals such as Réaction, La Revue du
Siècle, and La Revue française; he also wrote his first volume, La
crise est dans l'homme ("Crisis Is in Man").In 1934, he authored, with
Jean-Pierre Maxence, the manifesto Demain la France ("Tomorrow,
France"). Maxence and Maulnier also founded the weekly L'Insurgé in
1936 lasting only a few months, the magazine circulated nationalist
tenets, reviewed in Maulnier's 1938 essay Au-delà du nationalisme
("Beyond Nationalism"). At the same time, he joined Jean de Fabrègues
in the creation of a more analytical paper, Combat, one which would be
published until France's defeat in World War II.A regular contributor
to L'Action française since 1938, Maulnier continued to publish after
Nazi Germany's occupation of France (from 1940); he also started
writing for Le Figaro. He ceased writing for the paper after the start
of Operation Torch in 1942, and remained a journalist for Le Figaro
from 1945 until his death.
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