Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel ''Monsieur de Lourdines'' and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for ''

La Brière ''La Brière'' (translated as ''Passion and Peat'') is a 1923 novel by Alphonse de Chateaubriant that won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for that year. The novel is set in the rustic fenland landscape west of Nantes, known as ...

'' in 1923. After a visit to Germany in 1935 he became an enthusiastic advocate for Nazism. Along with other Breton nationalists he supported

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and

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ideas in opposition to the French state. In 1940 he founded the pro-Nazi weekly newspaper La Gerbe and served as President of the

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.David Littlejohn, '' The Patriotic Traitors'', Heinemann, 1972, p. 222 During World War II, he was a member of the central committee of the ''

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'', an organisation founded in 1941 by Fernand de Brinon and Jacques Doriot to recruit volunteers to fight alongside the Germans in the USSR. In 1945 he fled to Austria, where he lived under the alias Dr. Alfred Wolf until his death at a monastery in

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Works

* 1908: ''Le Baron de Puydreau'' (novella) * 1909: ''Monsieur de Buysse'' (novella) * 1911: ''

Monsieur des Lourdines ''Monsieur des Lourdines'' is a 1943 French historical drama film directed by Pierre de Hérain and starring Raymond Rouleau, Germaine Dermoz and Mila Parély. It is an adaptation of Alphonse de Chateaubriant's 1911 novel of the same title. The ...

'' (novel - Prix Goncourt) * 1923: ''

'' (novel - Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française) * 1927: ''La Meute'' * 1928: ''Locronan'' * 1933: ''La Réponse du Seigneur'' * 1937: ''La Gerbe des forces'' * 1937: ''Le bouquet fané'' * 1938: ''Les pas ont chanté'' * 1953: ''...Des saisons et des jours... Journal de l'auteur, 1911-1924'' * 2004: ''Fragments d'une confession – La sainteté''

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* 1877 births 1951 deaths Writers from Rennes French Roman Catholics French fascists Christian fascists 20th-century French writers 20th-century French male writers French collaborators with Nazi Germany Prix Goncourt winners Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners Catholicism and far-right politics {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub