![]() Despite having been viciously criticised by Robert Brasillach, he campaigned against his execution. ![]() Mauriac also doubted that justice would be impartial or dispassionate, given the emotional turmoil of the Liberation. Camus said newly liberated France should purge all Nazi collaborator elements, but Mauriac warned that such disputes should be set aside in the interests of national reconciliation. At that time, Camus edited the Resistance paper Combat (thereafter an overt daily, until 1947), while Mauriac wrote a column for Le Figaro. Mauriac had a bitter dispute with Albert Camus immediately following the Liberation of France. He was the only member of the Académie française to publish a Resistance text with the Editions de Minuit. ![]() After the fall of France to the Axis during the Second World War, he briefly supported the collaborationist régime of Marshal Pétain, but joined the Resistance as early as December 1941. ![]() On 1 June 1933, he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.Ī former Action française supporter, he turned to the left during the Spanish Civil War, criticizing the Catholic Church for its support of Franco. ![]()
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