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124:, Seine-et-Oise. His father was an officer and had married a francophile woman of the high Romanian nobility, Princess Marie Bibesco, whose father he had known during the campaigns of the Empire. He was raised in the family chateau of Courtanvaux until the age of ten, then was sent to the Stanislas Catholic school in Paris. After graduating he entered the École de Droit, and at the same time studied violin at the Conservatoire.
132:. He exercised with the 103rd Infantry Regiment in 1897, 1901, 1903 and 1905. He was always rated very well, and advanced steadily in rank, becoming a sub-lieutenant of the reserve in 1900. He obtained his bachelor's degree and then in 1899 wrote his doctoral thesis on the suppression of duelling. He enrolled at the bar but never pleaded.
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in which he responded to the report by saying he would again put up posters against the rehabilitation of
Dreyfus and Picquart. On 16 May 1907 he was suspended from his duties as a reserve officer for one year. Montesquiou held a meeting of 5,000 supporters two days later. Following an inquiry he was
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review, which had just been incorporated as a public limited company. He then organized a successful conference in
Marseille followed by a series of conferences in the provinces from 1903 onward. He became one of the best and most active speakers of the movement. In January 1905 he became Secretary
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Montesquiou was definitely converted to the royalist cause in August 1901. He was one of the few members of the old aristocracy to play a leading role in the Action Française movement. He became an increasingly important member of the movement. In
September 1902 he was put in charge of the
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The decision of the Court of
Cassation on 12 July 1906 to annul the conviction of Captain Dreyfus caused a renewed surge of anti-Drefusism among the Action française, with Montesquiou playing a leading role. The League denounced the decision, and violently attacked General
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Montesquiou wrote that the Action
Francaise was born from the Dreyfus Affair. In July 1909 he wrote, "We have one goal: Order through the restoration of the King. Well, if this restoration necessitates opposition to the law, violence, and
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at the Salle des
Agriculteurs, and publicly support the organization that evening. From then on he was in constant correspondence with Maurras, to whom the adherence of the well-born young man was important. In 1900 he joined the
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was commissioned in 1916 to produce a bust of
Montesquiou for the editorial offices of the Action Française. However, his preliminary model was rejected, and the sculptor was forced to consider a suit for breach of contract.
213:, the new Minister of War. In April 1907 Montesquiou was officially informed by the Ministry of War that a report on his activity in the Action française had been filed in his dossier as an officer. On 26 April 1907
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Montesquiou performed his military service as a private soldier from 13 November 1894 to 24 September 1895 in the 115th
Infantry Regiment, and was in one of the units designated to witness the degradation of Captain
144:, but then moved over to the Action française due to his exchanges with Maurras. His only reservation about the movement was that France was still proudly Republican, far from monarchist. He contributed to the
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193:(1868–1952) develop the royalist league's pro-Catholic policies. In February 1906 Montesquiou launched the Institut d'Action Française, where he held the "
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104:(14 July 1873 – 25 September 1915) was an artistocratic French essayist, militant royalist and nationalist. He played a leading role in the right-wing
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Other
Comtistes who were members or associated with AF were Antoine Baumann, Jules Raty, Paul Ritti, Georges Deherme and Julien Peyrouix.
205:(1907) Montesquiou tried to show the disciples of Comte could get along with Catholics. In 1910 he was elected a member of the Comtistes.
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Montesquiou was among the many early members of the Action Française who were practicing
Catholics, and included the art historian
269:(doctoral thesis), Paris: impr. de Jouve et Boyer / Université de Paris. Faculté de droit et des sciences économiques, p. 180
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237:(1914–18) Montesquiou was assigned as lieutenant to the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment. He fought in eastern France and in
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dismissed from his rank and employment in the army on 3 September 1907. He continued to campaign against the Drefusards.
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Notes sur la Roumanie : un pays sauvé par la monarchie, un roi et une constitution, la question juive...
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On 20 June 1899 Montesquiou attended the first public meeting organized by the committee of the
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from 1900, writing firmly nationalistic articles that were later collected into books such as
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Simon, W. M. (Spring 1965), "Comte's Orthodox Disciples: The Rise and Fall of a Cenacle",
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Le "Contrat social" de J.-J. Rousseau ou les Fondements philosophiques de la démocratie
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Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Siècle France
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Lettres à Charles Maurras: Amitiés politiques, lettres autographes, 1898-1952
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Ambivalent Alliance: The Catholic Church and the Action Française, 1899–1939
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Léon Odon Marie Anatole de Montesquiou-Fezensac was born on 14 July 1873 in
112:(1914–18). He enrolled in the army during the war and was killed in action.
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La Noblesse. Suivi d'extraits de Blanc de Saint-Bonnet sur le même sujet...
350:(Conférence in Lille, 5 March 1910), Paris: bureaux de "l'Action française"
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La Politique de "l'Action française". Réponse à MM. Lugan et J. Pierre...
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Le système politique d'Auguste Comte à la Nouvelle librairie nationale
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Laurent, Sébastien (2008-01-28), "Léon de Montesquiou (1873–1915)",
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review. By the end of December 1902 was chairman of the board of
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Faculté de droit de Paris. Étude sur la suppression du duel
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Auguste Comte, quelques principes de conservation sociale
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L'Antipatriotisme et la République, les manuels scolaires
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445:, Paris: Ligue "d'Action française", p. 40
274:Léon de Montesquiou (1901), "Le Salut public",
45:Léon Odon Marie Anatole de Montesquiou-Fezensac
201:based on his lectures and conferences. In his
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178:General of the new Ligue d'Action française.
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369:Le réalisme de Bonald
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276:l'Action française
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