Jean-Pierre Maxence
Jean-Pierre Maxence (1906-1956), writer and Journalist French.
Biographical elements
Young Catholic intellectual , near to the néo- Thomisme of Jacques Maritain, it creates at the end of the Twenties a monthly review entitled the Books (1928-1931), inspired by Charles Péguy, and defending the idea of a " revolution spirituelle". With the beginning of the year 1930, it approaches certain intellectual young people close to the French Action like Thierry Maulnier and takes the direction of the French Review (1932-1933).
Belonging in the years 1930-1934 so that Mounier will call the Jeune Right-hand side, Maxence, then claiming form of Personnalisme, is one of the representatives of the nebula of the Non-conformistes of the years 1930. Initially defender of a catholic Spiritualism, Maxence gradually turns worms of the more radical political positions, characterized by an increasingly marked antiparliamentarianism and a anticapitalism which are particularly expressed in the book Demain France that it writes with Thierry Maulnier and his brother Robert Francis the shortly after the riots of the February 6th, 1934.
This politization leads it to adhere to the league the French Solidarité created by the perfumer François Coty and will lead it, in 1936, to create with Thierry Maulnier the weekly magazine the Insurrectionist (1936) who claims at the same time Edouard Drumont and of Jules Vallès. While it becomes the literary critic of the weekly magazine Gringoire . On the intellectual level, Maxence finds some " nonconformists of the years 30" in the monthly review, Combat (1936-1939), directed by Jean de Fabrègues and Thierry Maulnier.
Fact captive in 1940 and released in 1941, it is favorable to the orientations of the National Révolution of the Régime of Vichy and gives articles to the reviews which expose the principles of them. Resident in Paris, he is Co-person in charge with the poet Résistant Robert Desnos of the literary page of the daily newspaper Aujourd'hui and he directs the Parisian social services of the Commission of the Prisoners, by using his functions to help the escaped prisoners and to support the activity of a network of protection of Jewish children. In the Release, it is reproduced on the " list noire" National committee of the writers and is exiled in Suisse where it creates a Center of studies thomists, and where it dies in 1956.
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