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Currently reading "The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940" by Frederick Brown. Brown uses the careers of the writers Maurice Barrès, Charles Maurras, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle to illustrate how many of the French intelligentsia through the lifetime of the Third Republic moved away from the ideals of the French Revolution (liberty, equality, inclusiveness) towards dictatorship, hierarchy and racism, until by the late 30s many prefered Hitler to the Popular Front and were willing to collaborate with the Nazis as ideological BFFs.
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