François Huguenin
François Maillot (born in 1965), better known as François Huguenin[1], is a French historian of ideas, essayist and journalist.
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Biography
A graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Public Service section, class of '85). He was a solidarity activist. From 1991 to 1994, he contributed to the magazine Réaction.[2]
In 1998, he published a study of Action Française thought (À l'école de l'Action française), which was expanded and amended in 2006 by Le Conservatisme impossible, in which he examined liberal and reactionary thought in France, and then by a paperback reprint, in the Tempus collection, under the title L'Action française (2011). The historian of ideas Raoul Girardet notes in this work "a concern for rigor and exhaustiveness that ensures that it is now the most unquestionable authority on the subject".[3]
François Huguenin then turned to the study of Anglo-American political philosophy and theology (Résister au libéralisme, 2009), seeking answers to what he sees as the impasses of modern political thought.
He then went on to write major summaries of the history of Catholicism (Les Voix de la foi, 2012; Les grandes figures catholiques de la France, 2016), followed by a vigorous essay, Le Pari chrétien, taking up anew the question of the relationship of Christians to politics. "Nourished by references to the last three popes, to the founding texts of the Church's social doctrine but also to great Christian thinkers, Huguenin's prose, balanced and precise, spares none of the subjects that anger. In a very "Bernanosian" filiation, he avoids the double pitfall that would make the Church the party of the Order or that of the Revolution and re-establishes that inner tension which makes the subtlety and the depth of Christian orthodoxy."[4]
After having been the general manager of Éditions de l'Étoile from 2002 to 2005, he directed the Parisian Catholic bookstore La Procure from 2004 to 2016. In 2017, he joined Éditions Tallandier as editorial director. He has notably edited texts by François Sureau, Christiane Rancé or Fabrice Hadjadj.
He teaches the history of political ideas at the IRCOM (Institut Albert-le-Grand) in Lyon and at the Institut Catholique de Paris (Paris and Reims campuses).
He writes regularly for the Christian weekly La Vie cultural columns (notably of film and music criticism).
Works
- Léon Daudet, député royaliste (1991; reworked text of a master's thesis)
- À l'école de l'Action française: un siècle de vie intellectuelle (1998; expanded and revised as L'Action française, Une histoire intellectuelle, (2011)
- La République xénophobe (2001; with Jean-Pierre Deschodt)
- Le Conservatisme impossible: libéralisme et réaction en France depuis 1789 (2006; expanded and slightly revised as Histoire intellectuelle des droites, 2013)
- Résister au libéralisme, Les Penseurs de la communauté (2009)
- Les Voix de la foi: vingt siècles de catholicisme par les textes (2012; 2015)
- Les Grandes Figures catholiques de la France (2016)
- Le pari chrétien: une autre vision du monde (2018)
- La Nuit comme le jour est lumière, avec Julien Green (2022)
Notes
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- ↑ Sometimes François Huguenin-Maillot.
- ↑ Camus, Jean-Yves; René Monzat (1992). Les Droites Nationales et Radicales en France: Répertoire Critique. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, p. 322, n. 2.
- ↑ "Ces intellectuels royalistes fascinaient la jeunesse du Quartier latin," Le Figaro Magazine (26 septembre 1998).
- ↑ Bastié, Eugénie (10 janvier 2018). Le Figaro.
