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Maurice Barrès
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French novelist (1862-1923)
Maurice Barrès was a French novelist and influential intellectual figure who lived from 1862 to 1923 and wrote during a transformative period in French literature and politics. His work is historically significant because he shaped important debates about French nationalism, spirituality, and the relationship between the individual and the nation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1862
- Died
- 1923
- Works
- 394
Top works
- Oeuvre
- Maurice Barrès
- Chronique de la Grande Guerre
- El Greco ya da Toledo'nun Gizi
- L'ame Francaise et La Guerre
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- General Theory of Three-Dimensional Consolidation
· 1941 · cited 8,158x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,699x
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Quotes
- “Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur.”
- “L'individu n'est rien, la société est tout.”
- “Reality, it cannot be repeated too often, varies with every one of us.”
- “There is no reality for me but pure thought. Minds alone are interesting.”
- “A strange rage this modern mania to give a common manner to all minds and to destroy individuality.”
- “Young men in meetings put in common nothing but their mediocrity.”
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Works in European collections
14 objects attributed to Maurice Barrès, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Auguste-Maurice Barrès ( French: [oɡyst mɔʁis baʁɛs]; 19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1906.
In politics, Barrès was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889 as a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life. He presided over the Ligue des Patriotes from 1914 until his death in 1923.
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