René Groos
René Groos (18 November 1898 – 10 August 1972) was a French writer, editor and journalist.
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Biography
René Groos was born at the 4th arrondissement of Paris. Groos was a critical editor who commented on many classic French texts.[lower-alpha 1] He is also known for his closeness to Action Française and, in particular, to the historian Jacques Bainville. He exchanged a series of letters with the maurrassian Gonzague Truc.
His acceptance into the Action française was difficult because of his Jewish origins. He was one of those individuals that Charles Maurras called the "well-born Jews", i.e. those who had been living in France for a long time or had served in the army. Groos had a distinct anti-Jewish persuation. In 1921, he declared himself ready "under the supervision, of course, of the French of race", to serve "in this anti-Jewish struggle" at the head of a "Jewish anti-Semitic group".[1] Two years later, he published an Survey of the Jewish Problem (1923), interviewing well-known members of the Action française, such as Robert Launay and Roger Lambelin.
He was also general secretary of Cahiers d'Occident, a journal edited by Gérard de Catalogne and Émile Dufour.
René Groos died at the 10th arrondissement of Paris at 73 years of age.
See also
Works
- Les étapes du socialisme (1920)
- Enquête sur le problème juif (1923)
- Le Nouveau Mercure (1927)
- Les lettres (1934)
- Trois bibliothèques idéales. 100, 200, 500 volumes (1940)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ He edited Voltaire's The Age of Louis XIV (1930), Jean Racine's Theater (1931), La Fontaine's Fables (1932), Nerval's Voyage to the Orient (1950), among other works.
Citations
- ↑ Joly, Laurent (2012). "D'une guerre l'autre. L'Action française et les Juifs, de l'Union sacrée à la Révolution nationale (1914-1944)," Revue d’histoire moderne & contemporaine, No. 59-4, pp. 97, 124.
References
- Dupré, Romain (2014). "René Groos, dit Pierre Herbel, homme de lettres et professeur (Paris, 18 novembre 1898 – Paris, 10 août 1972)," Archives juives, Nos. 47-2, pp. 131–42.
- Malinovich, Nadia (2008). French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early-Twentieth Century France. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- Prévotat, Jacques (2004). L'Action française. Paris: PUF.
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