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Maurras

British  
/ mora /

noun

  1. Charles (ʃarl). 1868–1952, French writer and political theorist, who founded (1899) the extreme right-wing group L'Action Français: sentenced (1945) to life imprisonment for supporting Pétain during World War II

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Here he refers to the early 20th Century anti-liberal and anti-Semitic writer Charles Maurras.

From BBC

Last year, the French government formally withdrew an edition of commemorative books that included Charles Maurras, an anti-Semitic writer who was twice convicted of inciting violence against Jewish politicians.

From Washington Post

France’s first Jewish prime minister, Léon Blum, nearly died of injuries he suffered in a brutal attack by Maurras’s allies.

From Washington Post

Bousquet insists that only when signing the three-year lease did he discover that Maurras’s nationalist organization, Action Française, operated a bookstore in the same spot during the interwar years.

From Washington Post

The French fascist Charles Maurras said that he did not believe in God but “thought it crucial that people believed in him”.

From The Guardian