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Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (January 3, 1893 - March 15, 1945) was a French novelist and essayist, who lived and died in Paris. A communist from the time of the Russian Revolution and a member of the dadaist movement, he later (beginning in the 1930s) embraced the ideas of fascism, and in particular of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. Accused after World War II of collaboration with the Nazi forces that had occupied Paris, he committed suicide.
In Le Jeune Européen (European Youth, 1927) and Genève ou Moscou (Geneva or Moscow 1928), Drieu La Rochelle argued for communism as the way to a strong Europe and denounced the "decadent materialism" of democracy. As late as 1931, in L'Europe contre les patries (Europe Against the Nations), he was writing as an anti-Hitlerian, but by 1934, especially after a visit to Germany in February of that year, he embraced Nazism as an antidote to the "mediocrity" of liberal democracy. Symptomatic of his politics at the time was the title of his 1934 book Socialisme fasciste. In 1937, with Avec Doriot, he was arguing for a specifically French fascism, but when the Nazis occupied northern France, he gave them the full support of his pen.
[1] (http://lafrusta.homestead.com/pro_larochelle.html)
Works
- Mesure de la France (1922)
- L'homme couvert de femmes (1925)
- Le Jeune Européen (1927)
- Genève ou Moscou (1928)
- L'Europe contre les patries (1931)
- Le Feu Follet (1931), made into a film by Louis Malle (1963)
- La comédie de Charleroi (1934)
- Socialisme fasciste (1934)
- Avec Doriot (1937)
- Gilles (1939)
- Ne plus attendre (1941)
- Notes pour comprendre le siècle (1941)
- Chronique politique (1943)
- L'homme à cheval (1943)
- Les chiens de paille (1944)
- Le Français d'Europe (1944)
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