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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.

— Charles Maurras The Future of the Intelligentsia (1905)

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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)

There can be no social peace in the Republic, and social reform is impossible without the king.

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