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Enquête sur la monarchie
Summary
Enquête sur la monarchie (Inquiry into the monarchy) is a book by the French politician Charles Maurras, journalist at the Revue d'Action française then director of L'Action française, first published in 1900 in the Gazette de France. Enquête sur la monarchie is the starting point for a renewal of the royalist movement in France. A revival based on the development of a new doctrine "which replaces the old parliamentary and conservative royalism with a conception of monarchy that aims to be traditional and nationalist", and the symmetrical development of the Action française born in 1899.
The first two editions were published in the Gazette de France in 1900.
The first book, entitled "Chez nos exilés", relates the interviews conducted by Maurras with André Buffet, head of the political office of the Duke of Orléans and Count Eugène de Lur-Saluces, president of the royalist committees of the South-West.
The second book, entitled "Les réponses", compiles the letters received from well-known and unknown personalities following the publication of the previous book, to which Charles Maurras responds.
The third book titled "Jules Lemaître et son ami", dated 1903, brings together 7 articles written by the eponymous French playwright and critic. These texts are followed in the appendix by a rallying letter from Octave Tauxier and an unpublished manuscript "Dictateur et roi". This journalistic work was brought together in a single volume in 1909. In 1925, the new edition included a "Discours préliminaire" which clarified certain elements.
Guillaume Bacot, former director of the French Review of the History of Political Ideas, sees in it a "rather disparate, not to say frankly disordered" set but still discerns a guideline: the restoration of the monarchy.
Maurras promotes an anti-parliamentary monarchy contrary to the two previous experiments which are the Bourbon Restauration from 1814 to 1830 and the July monarchy from 1830 to 1848.
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