René Johannet

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René Johannet (17 March 1884 – 2 June 1972), was a French journalist, essayist, literary critic and biographer.

Biography

René Johannet was born in Châteauroux. A nationalist thinker, he was associated with Charles Maurras' Action Française. He collaborated in particular with the Revue universelle, the noted magazine of Jacques Bainville and Henri Massis, and then with the Écrits de Paris. He wrote for the Nouvelle Librairie nationale, directed by Georges Valois, with whom he was close. Johannet was also close to Charles Péguy and Georges Sorel.

He was the husband of Henriette Charasson.

Works

  • L'Évolution du roman social au xixe siècle (1910)
  • Le Principe des nationalités (1918;[1] awarded the prix Thérouanne by the Académie française in 1920)
  • Rhin et France (1919)
  • Éloge du Bourgeois Français (1924)
  • Anatole France est-il un Grand Écrivain? (1925)
  • Joseph de Maistre (1932)
  • Vie et Mort de Péguy (1950; awarded the prix Durchon-Louvet by the Académie française in 1951)

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