Henri Lagrange

Henri Lagrange (1894 - 1914), Journalist and militant Monarchist French.

He publishes its first article as of 1910, at the sixteen years age, in the critical Revue of the ideas and the books , which is worth to him to be noticed by Maurice Barrès and Romain Roland.

But this young person and ebullient Camelot of the king especially went famous to have slapped and have insulted publicly the president Armand Fallières in June 1911, at the time of the festivities which proceeded in Rouen to celebrate the millenium of the fastening of the Normandy to the France. That was worth six months of prison to him, which it carried out with the mode of common right, in spite of the efforts made in its favor by more than one hundred fifty writers and artists (of which Guillaume Apollinaire, Frederic Mistral, Francis Carco, Paul Fort, Pierre Loti, Francis James, Emile Faguet, Paul Le Bourget, etc).

This gesture to him been worth a great popularity near the students of French Action, of which it will become the following year the general secretary. He will not be excluded less from it from the French Action for “activism” in 1913: one will reproach him for having wanted to organize a takeover by force against the Republic.

Binding friendship with Georges Valois, he works with the bringing together of the nationalists monarchists and the revolutionary trade unionists while being based on the political heritage of Georges Sorel and while taking part in the creation of the Cercle Proudhon.

In August 1914, it goes voluntary and declares “It is to the intellectuals that it belongs to give the example”. Wounded the October 6th at the time of the attack of Auberive, he dies of his wounds at the hospital of Montereau.

Charles Maurras, with which it had without success tempted to reconcile itself during its mobilization, will decree to him the title of “prince of youth” in the foreword which it will write for a collection of his texts, Twenty years in 1914. Political and literary studies, portraits and polemics, letters of war , published in 1920 by the New national bookstore (pp. VII-XV). In 1917, the writer Maurice Barrès will devote itself several pages of its spiritual Familles of France to this “bird of the storms”, this “stone of the torrent, full with sparks”. In 1924, Georges Valois will quote Henri Lagrange among the dedicatees of its test on the national Revolution : “The new generation was obviously marked sign of its sacrifice. I saw all quivering of a crowned impatience similar the Lagrange young person with an alive presentiment”, will make say Georges Bernanos to the one of the characters of his book Under the sun of Satan (1926).

Publications

Gerard de Nerval , Paris, ED. assessment, 1911.
“Introduction” to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, femmelins. Great romantic figures: J.J. Rousseau, Béranger, Lamartine, Mrs. Roland, Mrs. de Stael, Mrs. Necker de Saussure, George Sandavec , Paris, New national bookstore, 1912.
Twenty years in 1914. Political and literary studies, portraits and polemics, letters of war , foreword of Charles Maurras, Paris, New national bookstore, 1920.

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