Emmanuel Beau de Loménie (1896-1974) was a French journalist and political writer.
Early life
Emmanuel Beau de Loménie was born on February 4, 1896, in
Paris
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, France.
His paternal grandfather,
Louis de Loménie
Louis-Léonard de Loménie (3 December 1815 – 2 April 1878) was a French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works.
Biography
Loménie was b ...
, was an essayist.
Career
Beau de Loménie was a journalist and a teacher.
He was a contributor to conservative journals like ''Écrits de Paris'', ''La France catholique'' or ''Carrefour''.
Beau de Loménie was the author of many political books. He wrote about
François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Bri ...
,
Édouard Drumont
Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist, author and politician, most often remembered for his antisemitic ideology and animus. He initiated the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder ...
and
Charles Maurras
Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (; ; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet and critic. He was an organiser and principal philosopher of ''Action Française'', a political movement that was monarchist, corporatis ...
.
With ''Les responsabilités des dynasties bourgeoises'', he wrote a five-volume study of bourgeois families who supposedly controlled the fate of France, from the
French Revolution to
World War II
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.
In ''L'Algérie trahie par l'argent'', he wrote a defense of
French Algeria
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, arguing that French civilization was superior.
He was also "openly antisemitic".
Death
Beau de Loménie died on February 8, 1974, in Paris, France.
[''La Gazette du Palais : Supplément au Journal judiciaire quotidien, contenant la jurisprudence et la législation publiées dans le Journal quotidien et le recueil mensuel des sommaires'', Vol.102, 1982, p. 459.]
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References
1896 births
1974 deaths
French political writers
20th-century French journalists
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