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{{Subtitle|''Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the {{IVe|Republic}}''}}
{{Infobox Newspaper {{Infobox Book
| name = Cahiers Charles Maurras
| image = Cahiers Charles Maurras, n°7, février 1963.jpg | title = Your Glorious Today
| country = {{France}} | author = ]
| language = ] | country = {{France}}
| frequency = ] | genre = ]
| category = ], Literature, ] | location = ]
| first_issue = 1960 | publisher = Fayard
| final_issue = 1978 | publication_date = 1953
| editor = | image = Votre bel aujourd'hui de Charles Maurras (1953).jpg
| founder = ]<br>Marguerite Calzant | caption = First edition.
| ISSN = | pages = 491
| caption = ''Cahiers Charles Maurras'', n°7, February 1963. | subtitle = Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the IV° Republic
| previous_work = ]
}} }}


'''''Your Glorious Today''''' is a posthumous book by the French journalist and politician ] published in 1953. The work serves as a rebuttal to the book ''Yesterday and Tomorrow,'' written by President of the Republic ] and published in 1944.
The '''''Cahiers Charles Maurras''''' were a quarterly journal founded by ] and his wife Marguerite Calzant, published from 1960 to 1978. Its purpose was to extend the influence of the ideas of French journalist and politician ], the director of '']''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Leon S. Roudiez|title=Maurras and the Action Française in Historical Perspective|journal=The Modern Language Journal|volume=49|issue=7|date=1965|issn=0026-7902|doi=10.2307/322563|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/322563|access-date=2023-04-29|pages=443–446}}</ref> The journal featured collections of texts, studies, memories, and anecdotes aimed at preserving the legacy of the leading thinker of ].

According to historian ], while the ''Cahiers Charles Maurras'' provide valuable information, they were produced with little {{Citation|"historical objectivity"}}.<ref name=goyet>{{citation|Another place of worship was founded in 1960 by lawyer Georges Calzant, secretary of the AF students since the 1920s and a key leader during the war: the ''Cahiers Charles Maurras'', a quarterly journal that published many unpublished documents by Maurras and his associates, a precious source for historians, though often partisan.}}, ], ''Charles Maurras'', Paris, Presses de Sciences-Po, 2000, p. 103.</ref>{{,}}<ref>{{citation|The ''Cahiers Charles Maurras'' remain a rich source of notes and diverse details unavailable elsewhere. However, their conception lacks any historical spirit.}},{{Cite journal|author1=Victor Nguyen|title=The State of Maurrassian Studies: Contribution to the Study of the Press and Mentalities|journal=Revue d’Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine|volume=18|issue=4|date=1971|doi=10.3406/rhmc.1971.2167|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rhmc_0048-8003_1971_num_18_4_2167|access-date=2023-04-29|pages=503–538}}, p.528</ref>.


== Overview == == Overview ==
] (1897-1962).]]
Since ]' death on November 16, 1952, several significant texts by him had been published (''Saint Pie X, Sauveur de la France'', '']'', ''Maîtres et témoins de ma vie d’esprit'', ''Pascal puni''). The team led by Georges Calzant aimed to provide readers with extracts from older works, unpublished writings, studies, and testimonials that complemented the more news-focused weekly '']''. The journal sought to maintain the influence of one of the most prominent and influential thinkers of his time.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author1=Michel Leymarie|author2=Olivier Dard|author3=Jacques Prévotat|title=]|volume=3|chapter=Le maurrassisme et la culture|publisher=Presses Univ. Septentrion|date=2010-06-03|isbn=978-2-7574-0147-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-6Nl9YNkFcC&pg=PA322|access-date=2022-12-10}}</ref> The ''Cahiers Charles Maurras'' became a "place of worship" for ]<ref name=goyet/> featuring often partisan analyses.<ref>{{Cite chapter|language=fr|author=Thomas Roman|title=Georges Calzant (1897-1962)|book-title=Lettres à Charles Maurras: Amitiés politiques, lettres autographes, 1898-1952|publisher=Presses universitaires du Septentrion|series=Histoire et Civilisations|date=2020-10-16|isbn=978-2-7574-2124-6|url=http://books.openedition.org/septentrion/39432|access-date=2022-12-10|pages=159–177}}</ref> The journal, along with ''L'Ordre Français'' (since 1956), contributed to {{citation|offering new visibility to the ideologues}} of the ].<ref name=MB>{{Cite book|author=Mathias Bernard|title=La Guerre des droites: De l’affaire Dreyfus à nos jours|date=2007|pages=110–111|publisher=Odile Jacob|isbn=9782738185754}}</ref>


=== Context ===
After Georges Calzant passed away on June 28, 1962, the publication was taken over by Pierre Sortais and his wife.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|title=Cahiers Charles Maurras|date=1977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_lXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT84|access-date=2022-12-10}}</ref>
Following the ], Charles Maurras began drafting an extended letter addressed to ] in response to his 1944 book ''Yesterday and Tomorrow,'' which analyzed the events leading to the ] and proposed post-war projects.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|language=fr|author1=Pierre Pujo|author2=Sarah Blanchonnet|title=The Treasure of Action Française|pages=108–109|publisher=L'Âge d'Homme|year=2006|isbn=978-2-8251-3712-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EpuOoOVdIlEC&pg=PA108|access-date=2022-10-21}}</ref> Maurras vigorously refuted Auriol's work point by point.<ref name=":1" /> The text was completed in April 1950 while Maurras was incarcerated at ] and published in 1953, one year after his death.<ref name=":1" />


== Periodicity == === Analysis ===
Historian Martin Motte explains that Maurras focused on three major challenges in the post-] era.<ref name=":0">''The Political Thought of Maurras'' by Martin Motte, in {{Cite book|language=fr|author1=Charles Maurras|editor=]|title=L'Avenir de l'intelligence et autres textes|publisher=Groupe Robert Laffont|series=Bouquins|year=2018|isbn=978-2-221-21928-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mj1SDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT426|access-date=2022-10-21}}, pp. 482–485.</ref>
Out of loyalty, the publication dates for the quarterly issues were set as follows:
* {{Date|9|2}}: Commemorating both the birth and death anniversaries of ].
* {{Date|20|4}}: Celebrating the birth anniversary of Maurras.
* {{Date|8|9}}: Marking the birth anniversary of ] and the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
* {{Date|16|11}}: Commemorating the death anniversary of Maurras and the birth anniversary of ].


First, Maurras criticized the ]:
A total of 68 issues were published.
{{Blockquote|The Europe people talk about does not exist. Or no longer exists. Or not yet. Or not at all. It lacks the unity that draws being from nothingness. Do you want to give it that unity? Go ahead! But do not pretend it is already done.|reference=<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author=Charles Maurras|title=Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the {{IVe|Republic}}|publisher=A. Fayard|year=1953|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Votre_bel_aujourd_hui/v0HRAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr|access-date=2022-10-21|page=435}}</ref>}}
Maurras dismissed calls for European unity as disguises for national ambitions, pointing to Nazi Germany in 1940–1944 and ], which, despite advocating a European federation, was resolute in {{Quote|sacrificing none of its sovereignty nor the nationalism underpinning it}}.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author=Charles Maurras|title=Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the {{IVe|Republic}}|publisher=A. Fayard|year=1953|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Votre_bel_aujourd_hui/v0HRAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr|access-date=2022-10-21|page=438}}</ref><ref name=":0" />


Second, Maurras opposed Franco-German unity, interpreting it as {{Quote|a German ruse to achieve peacefully the expansionist aims it failed to impose by force}}.<ref name=":0" /> He argued that demographic disparities would allow fifteen million Germans to overwhelm France. Although this reasoning is flawed, historian Martin Motte notes that Maurras accurately foresaw a potential ] by Germany, transforming Europe into a {{Quote|new Holy Roman Empire}}<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author=Charles Maurras|title=Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the {{IVe|Republic}}|publisher=A. Fayard|year=1953|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Votre_bel_aujourd_hui/v0HRAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr|access-date=2022-10-21|page=441}}</ref>, leaving France as a mere {{Quote|satellite}}.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author=Charles Maurras|title=Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the {{IVe|Republic}}|publisher=A. Fayard|year=1953|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Votre_bel_aujourd_hui/v0HRAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr|access-date=2022-10-21|page=442}}</ref>
== Contributors ==
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Third, Maurras discussed the issue of nuclear weapons, calling them an {{Quote|dreadful device}}.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author=Charles Maurras|title=Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the {{IVe|Republic}}|publisher=A. Fayard|year=1953|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Votre_bel_aujourd_hui/v0HRAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr|access-date=2022-10-21|page=447}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|author=]|title=]|pages=485|publisher=Flammarion|year=2006|isbn=978-2-0812-2110-9|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Charles_Maurras_le_chaos_et_l_ordre/EYLC--aUBfYC?hl=fr|access-date=2022-10-21}}</ref> He deemed it crucial for France to acquire nuclear capability and prevent its misuse by {{Quote|fanatical sects}}.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author=Charles Maurras|title=Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the {{IVe|Republic}}|publisher=A. Fayard|year=1953|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Votre_bel_aujourd_hui/v0HRAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr|access-date=2022-10-21|page=449}}</ref> He even proposed testing such weapons in {{Quote|African and Oceanic solitudes}}, predicting ] in ] and ].<ref name=":0" />
== Bibliography ==

* Jérôme Cotillon, ''Ce qu'il reste de Vichy'', Armand Collin, 2003, p.84 {{Cite web|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Ce_qu_il_reste_de_Vichy/B14ygoHbiPsC?pg=PT84|access-date=2022-12-10}}.
In conclusion, Maurras implored Vincent Auriol to champion the restoration of the monarchy<ref>{{Cite journal|language=en|author=Edmond de Jaive|title=Your Glorious Today|journal=Books Abroad|volume=29|issue=2|date=1955|url=https://www-jstor-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/40094220?searchText=Votre+Bel+aujourd%27hui+maurras|pages=188–189}}</ref> and prepare for the accession of ] to the French throne.<ref name=":1" /> According to ], the book exemplifies ].<ref name=":1" />

Despite the ] and the creation of ], Maurras continued advocating ] in ''Your Glorious Today,'' calling for civic exclusion of Jews.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author=]|title=Charles Maurras: The Integral Nationalist|pages=8|publisher=Armand Colin|year=2013|isbn=978-2-200-29030-6|url=https://www.dunod.com/sites/default/files/atoms/files/9782100793761/Feuilletage.pdf|access-date=2022-10-21}}</ref>

⚫ == External Link ==
* '''' on ], the digital library of the ].

== See Also ==
{{Sister project links
| wikiquote = Your Glorious Today
| wikiquote title = Your Glorious Today
| wikisource = Your Glorious Today
| wikisource title = Your Glorious Today
⚫ }}


== Notes and References == == Notes and References ==
{{References}} {{References}}

⚫ == External Links ==
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Votre bel aujourd'hui
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AuthorCharles Maurras
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Your Glorious Today is a posthumous book by the French journalist and politician Charles Maurras published in 1953. The work serves as a rebuttal to the book Yesterday and Tomorrow, written by President of the Republic Vincent Auriol and published in 1944.

Overview

Context

Following the Hiroshima bombing, Charles Maurras began drafting an extended letter addressed to Vincent Auriol in response to his 1944 book Yesterday and Tomorrow, which analyzed the events leading to the military disaster of 1940 and proposed post-war projects. Maurras vigorously refuted Auriol's work point by point. The text was completed in April 1950 while Maurras was incarcerated at Clairvaux Prison and published in 1953, one year after his death.

Analysis

Historian Martin Motte explains that Maurras focused on three major challenges in the post-Second World War era.

First, Maurras criticized the European unification:

The Europe people talk about does not exist. Or no longer exists. Or not yet. Or not at all. It lacks the unity that draws being from nothingness. Do you want to give it that unity? Go ahead! But do not pretend it is already done.

Maurras dismissed calls for European unity as disguises for national ambitions, pointing to Nazi Germany in 1940–1944 and Great Britain, which, despite advocating a European federation, was resolute in

sacrificing none of its sovereignty nor the nationalism underpinning it

. Second, Maurras opposed Franco-German unity, interpreting it as

a German ruse to achieve peacefully the expansionist aims it failed to impose by force

. He argued that demographic disparities would allow fifteen million Germans to overwhelm France. Although this reasoning is flawed, historian Martin Motte notes that Maurras accurately foresaw a potential informal domination by Germany, transforming Europe into a

new Holy Roman Empire

, leaving France as a mere

satellite

. Third, Maurras discussed the issue of nuclear weapons, calling them an

dreadful device

. He deemed it crucial for France to acquire nuclear capability and prevent its misuse by

fanatical sects

. He even proposed testing such weapons in

African and Oceanic solitudes

, predicting French nuclear tests in Reggane and Moruroa.

In conclusion, Maurras implored Vincent Auriol to champion the restoration of the monarchy and prepare for the accession of the Count of Paris to the French throne. According to Pierre Pujo, the book exemplifies empiricism of organization.

Despite the Final Solution and the creation of Israel, Maurras continued advocating state anti-Semitism in Your Glorious Today, calling for civic exclusion of Jews.

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  1. ^ Pierre Pujo; Sarah Blanchonnet (2006). The Treasure of Action Française (in French). L'Âge d'Homme. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978-2-8251-3712-3. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  2. ^ The Political Thought of Maurras by Martin Motte, in Charles Maurras (2018). Jean-Christophe Buisson (ed.). L'Avenir de l'intelligence et autres textes. Bouquins (in French). Groupe Robert Laffont. ISBN 978-2-221-21928-7. Retrieved 2022-10-21., pp. 482–485.
  3. Charles Maurras (1953). Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the [[:Template:IVe]] (in French). A. Fayard. p. 435. Retrieved 2022-10-21. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  4. Charles Maurras (1953). Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the [[:Template:IVe]] (in French). A. Fayard. p. 438. Retrieved 2022-10-21. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  5. Charles Maurras (1953). Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the [[:Template:IVe]] (in French). A. Fayard. p. 441. Retrieved 2022-10-21. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  6. Charles Maurras (1953). Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the [[:Template:IVe]] (in French). A. Fayard. p. 442. Retrieved 2022-10-21. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  7. Charles Maurras (1953). Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the [[:Template:IVe]] (in French). A. Fayard. p. 447. Retrieved 2022-10-21. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  8. Stéphane Giocanti (2006). [[Charles Maurras: Chaos and Order]]. Flammarion. p. 485. ISBN 978-2-0812-2110-9. Retrieved 2022-10-21. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  9. Charles Maurras (1953). Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the [[:Template:IVe]] (in French). A. Fayard. p. 449. Retrieved 2022-10-21. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  10. Edmond de Jaive (1955). "Your Glorious Today". Books Abroad. 29 (2): 188–189.
  11. Olivier Dard (2013). Charles Maurras: The Integral Nationalist (PDF) (in French). Armand Colin. p. 8. ISBN 978-2-200-29030-6. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
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