The Pen That Killed: Charles Maurras and the Blood on His Words
In a cold Lyon courtroom in January 1945, a nearly deaf 76-year-old man rises to face his sentence and shouts one final, venomous line: “This is the revenge of Dreyfus!”
Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras never held a gun. He never planted a bomb. Yet for decades his newspaper columns called for deaths, named targets, demanded hostages be shot, and cheered the persecution of Jews, Resistance fighters, and political enemies. During the Occupation those words became tips that led to arrests, deportations, and executions.
Host Alexander Lawson examines the rise of France’s most influential…
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