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Henri Massis (1886-1970) was a French conservative essayist, literary critic and historian. He was a follower of Charles Maurras and the Action Française, and supported Franco and Salazar in the Spanish Civil War.
Henri Massis (1886-1970) est un critique littéraire, essayiste politique et historien de la littérature, proche de l'Action française et de Maurras. Il a créé des revues, défendu l'Occident, soutenu le régime de Vichy et été élu à l'Académie française.
- 16 avril 1970 (à 84 ans)Paris
- Henri Amédée Félix Massis
- 21 mars 1886Paris
- Yport
Henri MASSIS (1886-1970) fut un critique, essayiste et historien, proche de la droite nationaliste et de Maurras. Élu en 1960 à l'Académie française, il publia de nombreux ouvrages sur la littérature, la politique et l'histoire.
Overview. Henri Massis. (1886—1970) Quick Reference. (1886–1970). Never a major writer, Massis was nevertheless central to right‐wing French politics and literature in his period. His early tracts (co‐authored under the pseudonym ‘Agathon’), L'Esprit de la nouvelle ... From: Massis, Henri in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French »
Just before the First World War, Henri Massis, in the words of one commentator, "throbbed with the ill-concealed ambition of becoming a leader of youth and a spiritual guide."1 This ambition was largely realized. when Massis, still in his twenties, teamed up with Alfred de Tarde to.
Apr 20, 1970 · PARIS, April 19 — Henri Massis, a defender of the cause of the intellebtual Catholic and nationalist right in France and a member of the Académie Française,...
Henri Massis (1886–1970), right-wing Roman Catholic critic: contributor to L’Action Fran ç aise; co-founder and editor of La Revue Universelle. Closely associated with Charles Maurras, his writings include Jugements (2 vols., 1924), Jacques Rivière (1925), and La Défense de l’Occident (1928).