Robert Havard de La Montagne
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Robert Havard de la Montagne (11 November 1877 – 11 August 1963) was a French writer, political journalist and royalist activist.
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Biography
Robert Havard de La Montagne was born at the 7th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Oscar Havard and his wife Suzanne (née Macléot). Secretary of politician Denys Cochin, deputy of the Seine, he began his journalist career at L'Express du Midi (1899–1900) in Toulouse, then became editor-in-chief of the Nouvelliste de la Sarthe and later (1909–1914) took over the direction of the Nord Patriote of Lille. He later founded the fortnightly Rome (1923–1934) which was published in French in the Italian capital. In the years 1925–1930 he was also director of the Rome agency of the Figaro.
He was one of the collaborators of Charles Maurras' Action française and one of the first historians of the movement.
A Pétainist during the German occupation, he supported the policies of the Vichy government, and spoke out in favor of the merciless repression of the French Resistance.[1] He wrote a few articles on current events in the newspaper Je suis partout, although he deviated significantly from the style of the newspaper, and also contributed in the Revue Universelle.
On January 29, 1947, he was sentenced to national demotion by the Lyon Civic Chamber (one of the courts created at the Liberation).
He later collaborated in Aspects de la France under the pseudonym of Jacques Villedieu. Tertiary of Saint Benedict, he was vice-president of the Association of the Monarchic and Catholic Press.[2]
Robert Havard de La Montagne died at Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure.
Works
- Examen de conscience: Causeries sur le temps présent (1905)
- Les Candidats à la présidence (1906)
- L'Âme qui se donne (1907; novel)
- Leur fils (1910; novel)
- Le Romantisme français (1910; conference given in Antoing, Belgium)
- L'Action Française, ses origines, son but, sa méthode (1912; conference given in Angers on February 28, 1912)
- Madame de Maintenon (1913)
- Mademoiselle de Scudéry (1914)
- Sainte Catherine de Sienne. Sa vie, sa mort et ses miracles (1919; from a fifteenth-century Italian manuscript by Thomas Maconi. Translation from the Italian by Robert and Madeleine Havard de la Montagne with an introduction and notes)
- Les Fioretti de Sainte Catherine de Sienne (1924; collected by Father Taurisano, O.P. Translation by Madeleine Havard de la Montagne. Letter-preface by Cardinal Gasparri)
- À propos d'un Centenaire. Étude sur le Ralliement (1926)
- Histoire de la Démocratie Chrétienne: de Lamennais à Georges Bidault (1948)
- Histoire de l'Action Française (1950)
- Niccolò Dal-Gal, Pie X (1953; translation)
- Gabriel Breynat, Évêque volant, cinquante ans au Grand Nord canadien (1953; reduction in 1 volume by Havard de la Montagne from the original work published in Canada in 3 volumes)
- Chemins de Rome et de France. Cinquante ans de souvenirs (1956)
