The Maurrasian critique of democracy

As a major critic of parliamentary democracy, Charles Maurras« Provençal roots and his »organizing empiricism" fueled his contestation of the republican regime in the name of living communities.

Charles Maurras (1868-1952), royalist thinker, editorialist and leader of l'Action française, was born in Martigues, some thirty kilometers from the center of Marseille. His identity was shaped by the langue d'oc, the Greek past of the Provençal shores and the Mediterranean as a gateway to the universal. His literary work bears constant witness to this. This Provençal identity also justified his early political commitments. In the 1890s, he joined the Félibrige[1] movement, influenced by Alphonse Daudet and Frédéric Mistral.

Thus, Maurras asserts that the freedom of writers in the South of France can only be the consequence of a necessary