1. Maurice Pujo became the leader of the Camelots du Roi, the youth organization of the Action Francaise which took part in many right-wing demonstrations in the years before World War II.
11 Facts About Maurice Pujo
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Maurice Pujo expected to make a career as a literary critic.
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Maurice Pujo launched the journal La Revue jeune, later renamed L'Art et la Vie, which lasted for a few years.
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Maurice Pujo was fluent in German, very interested in German culture and an ardent follower of Richard Wagner.
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Maurice Pujo visited Germany as a student in the 1890s.
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On 19 December 1898 Maurice Pujo published an article that first used the term L'Action francaise in the daily paper L'Eclair in which he declared that the dispute over Dreyfus was damaging France's vital interests, and called for maintenance of the traditions of the homeland.
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On 16 November 1908 Lucien Moreau and Maurice Pujo created the Camelots du Roi youth movement.
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Maurice Pujo remained director of the Camelots from 1908 to 1939.
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Maurice Pujo continued to lead demonstrations by the Camelots du Roi into the 1930s, notably the demonstrations about the Stavisky Affair of January and February 1934.
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Maurice Pujo was imprisoned by the Gestapo for three weeks in June 1944.
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Maurice Pujo then became political director of Aspects de la France until his death on 6 September 1955.