Maurice Clavel

Known for

Writing

Born

November 10, 1920

Birthplace

Frontignan, Hérault, France

Died

April 23, 1979 (aged 58)

Biography

Maurice Clavel (1920-1979) was a French writer, journalist, and philosopher.

Maurice Clavel was born on 10 November 1920 in Frontignan, Hérault to a family headed by a father who was a pharmacist. This conservative milieu of small shopkeepers in Languedoc led him to be an activist in the French Popular Party (FPP) in his hometown of Frontignan.

A brilliant pupil, he got into the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in the Rue d'Ulm in Paris. There he became acquainted with Trotskyist Jean-Toussaint Desanti and Maurrassian Pierre Boutang. The latter, having been appointed in the Secretariat of Public Instruction, invited him to serve by his side under Marshal Philippe Pétain. Having just go...