Jean de Fabrègues
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| Born |
Jean d'Azémar de Fabrègues 8 January 1906 Paris, France |
| Died | 23 November 1983 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Jean d'Azémar de Fabrègues (8 January 1906 – 23 November 1983) was a French Catholic intellectual and journalist. He was a "traditional" Catholic, rejecting the materialism of both liberal democracy and the totalitarian regimes of the right and the left.
Jean d'Azémar de Fabrègues was born on 8 January 1906 in Paris. His parents were Raymond d'Azémar de Fabrègues (1865–1944) and Marie Louise Dufour. He attended the Sorbonne but did not complete his studies. He obtained a Bachelor's degree and a diploma of graduate studies in philosophy, and became a university teacher in 1930. He married Monique Mignot.
Fabrègues joined the right wing and royalist Action Française and was the secretary of Charles Maurras, but moved from there to a "traditionalist" catholicism. Fabrègues contributed to several right-leaning journals in the 1930s including La Gazette française of the Action Française (1924–30), Réaction (1930–32) Revue du Siècle (1933–34), Revue du XXe siècle (1934–35) and Combat (1936–39).Combat (Struggle) was an extreme right magazine that Fabrègues coedited with Thierry Maulnier, who was also disgusted by the decadence of the era. Fabrègues was given leave from teaching in 1937, and became director of the journal Civilization and of the éditions Masson collections of classics for schools from 1937 to 1939.
In the 1930s Jean de Fabrègues was at the center of the Young Catholic Right, a group that lost direction when the Pope condemned the Action Française. They followed the views of people such as Jacques Maritain, Georges Bernanos, Henri Massis, Étienne Gilson, François Mauriac and Gabriel Marcel. The 1930s nonconformists, as Jean-Louis Loubet del Bayle has called them, were opposed to the materialism of the liberals and the Marxists. They opposed both parliamentary democracy and the totalitarian communist, fascist and Nazi regimes.
After the defeat of France in 1940 Fabrègues and others including Jean Daujat, Jean Guitton, Henri Guitton, Gustave Thibon and François Perroux supported the Vichy regime's National Revolution, which they hoped would introduce a Christian social order. The German occupation and the evolution of the Vichy regime disappointed them without making them abandon their views.
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