Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) was a French

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who won the

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in 1911 for his novel ''Monsieur de Lourdines'' and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for '' La Brière'' in 1923. After a visit to Germany in 1935 he became an enthusiastic advocate for

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. Along with other Breton nationalists he supported

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and anti-semitic ideas in opposition to the French state. In 1940 he founded the pro-Nazi weekly newspaper La Gerbe and served as President of the Groupe Collaboration.David Littlejohn, '' The Patriotic Traitors'', Heinemann, 1972, p. 222 During World War II, he was a member of the central committee of the '' Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme'', an organisation founded in 1941 by

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and Jacques Doriot to recruit volunteers to fight alongside the Germans in the USSR. In 1945 he fled to

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, where he lived under the alias Dr. Alfred Wolf until his death at a monastery in Kitzbühel.

Works

* 1908: ''Le Baron de Puydreau'' (novella) * 1909: ''Monsieur de Buysse'' (novella) * 1911: '' Monsieur des Lourdines'' (novel -

) * 1923: '' La Brière'' (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 Groupe Collaboration members French fascists Christian fascists 20th-century French writers 20th-century French male writers Catholicism and far-right politics Prix Goncourt winners Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners People convicted of indignité nationale {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub Nazis sentenced to death in absentia by France