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Henri Lagrange 1893-1915
Barrès wrote of him, in "Various Spiritual Families of France," "For the broad and calm energy of his elders, this child substitutes a sacred violence... He is a bird of the storms..."
At the age of 15, he joined the federation of the king's messengers and was already writing in the journal critique des idées et des livres. This did not prevent him from taking part in numerous fights against the communists. On June 23, 1911, during the festivities that took place in Rouen to celebrate the millennium of the attachment of Normandy to France, he publicly insulted the president Armand Fallières, which earned him six months in prison.
With Georges Valois and some comrades, Lagrange founded the Proudhon circle. It is a question of resuming the workers' claim by placing it in the only framework where it can express itself and reach its true goals, the monarchy. Syndicalism and nationalism, such was the ordinary subject of the innumerable speeches launched through France by this 18 years old orator, in front of immense, crowded, stormy rooms...
In short, the association of Georges Sorel and Proudhon. Lagrange, a monarchist, a Maurrassian, was at the same time a determined European who took up Proudhon's assertion: "Let us place ourselves in the French point of view, intimately linked to the European point of view". In 1912 he wrote in the chapter "syndicalism and nationalism: Together they settle their account with the pseudo-conquests of the Revolution: the monarchists by erasing the Republic which is in France the reign of the foreigner and which submits without resistance to the power of gold: the syndicalists by restoring the professional community abolished by the detestable law Le Chapelier".
In August 1914, he volunteered and declared: "It is up to the intellectuals to set an example". He was seriously wounded on October 6, 1915 during the attack of Auberive and died on October 30...
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