Pierre Gaxotte, ou l’extrême droite respectable
The biography of Pierre Gaxotte questions the « far-right » as a category. As a journalist, editor and historian, Pierre Gaxotte wrote an abundant and protean work and was one of the leading figures of the French far-right for six decades, having multiple commitments, from being an editor at the Act...
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| Language: | fra |
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Association Paul Langevin
2022-04-01
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| Series: | Cahiers d’histoire |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/18369 |
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| Summary: | The biography of Pierre Gaxotte questions the « far-right » as a category. As a journalist, editor and historian, Pierre Gaxotte wrote an abundant and protean work and was one of the leading figures of the French far-right for six decades, having multiple commitments, from being an editor at the Action Française in the 1920’s to the patronage of the journal Nouvelle École in the late 1970s. His itinerary is all the more intriguing since he was able - through a thorough work of biographical reconstruction - to escape the anathema that struck the French far-right after 1945. Subsequently, he was able to impose the image of a worldly and respectable reactionary, a true notable of Parisian letters, allowing him to constitute a discreet bridge between a rebuilding intellectual extreme right and the general conservative public, as evidenced in particular by the undeniable success of his most famous work, La Révolution française (1928). |
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| ISSN: | 1271-6669 2102-5916 |