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The king is so visible that he is almost too responsible for everything: the republic, a collectivity that cannot be responsible for anything, serves as a nickname for everybody and nobody, a good-for-nothing and destructive anonymity.

— Charles Maurras For a French Awakening (1943)

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Napoleon personifies the ironic and harsh response of the military men of the XIX century to the literary dreams of the XVIII.

The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)

That France may live, the King must return.

At the Sign of Flore (1931)

Of these two powers in conflict, Intelligentsia and Force, which seemed to win in the course of the same century?

The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)

The French woman is, in France, everywhere a queen: at the salon, the farm, the shop, the large store.

For a French Awakening (1943)

Gallic strength, Roman order, such is, in my opinion, the civil state of our fatherland.

For a French Awakening (1943)

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