Maurice Reclus
Maurice Reclus (6 July 1883 – 4 March 1972) was a French historian and politician of the Third Republic.
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Biography
A member of the Reclus family, he was born at the 12th arrondissement of Paris, the son of the geographer Onésime Reclus and nephew of Elisée Reclus. He was a doctor of letters, chief of staff of the undersecretary of state for fine arts and president of section at the Council of State. He was elected member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1937.
In 1942, he chaired the anti-Masonic commission created by Pierre Laval to implement the laws of 1941.
His whereabouts are almost completely lost from 1944 until his death in 1972. Widower of Irène Marie Fouquiau, he died in his apartment at 114, Boulevard Raspail, 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Works
- Les Économats dans l'industrie des chemins de fer en France (1908; thesis)
- Ernest Picard, 1821-1877, essai de contribution à l'histoire du parti républicain (1912)
- Jules Favre, 1809-1880, essai de biographie historique et morale (1912)
- Raymond Poincaré, suivi de Pages inédites et de l'Histoire du 34e fauteuil (1928)
- Monsieur Thiers (1929)
- L'Avènement de la Troisième République, 1871-1875 (1930)
- Le Seize mai (1931)
- Émile de Girardin, le créateur de la presse moderne (1934)
- Une grande époque: la Troisième République de 1870 à 1918 (1945)
- Jules Ferry, 1832-1893 (1947)
- Grandeur de «la Troisième», de Gambetta à Poincaré (1948)
- Le Péguy que j'ai connu. Avec 100 lettres de Charles Péguy, 1905-1914 (1951)
References
- Brun, Christophe (2015). Elisée Reclus, Une Chronologie Familiale: sa vie, ses voyages, ses écrits, ses ascendants, ses collatéraux, les descendants, leurs écrits, sa postérité, 1796-2015.
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