Charasson was born on 6 January 1884 inLe Havre, France.
DuringWorld War I, Charasson joined theAction Française.[2] She wrote forLa Croix andL'Action Française on several occasions under the pseudonymOrion,[3] which increased her notoriety in intellectual and masculine nationalist circles.[4] She later became a contributor forLa Dépêche tunisienne as aliterary critic for twenty-five years.
Upon reading the works ofCharles Maurras, Charasson expressed that her belief in God was awakened. She said: "For me, I repeat, encountering the works of Charles Maurras, who is not a believer, was my first step on the road to Damascus."[4] Her marriage in 1920 to the journalist René Johannet led to her eventual conversion toCatholicism.[5] After the condemnation ofAction Française by thePope Pius XI in 1926, Charasson turned away from the movement.[5]
She died on 24 December 1972 onChâteauroux, France.
^Jacques Prévotat, "The Catholic circles of Action française", inL'Action française: culture, society, politics, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9,read online) p. 157–172
^abBruno Dumons, "L'Action française au feminine: Networks and figures of activists at the beginning of the 20th century", inL'Action française: culture, society, politique, Presses universitaire du Septentrion, coll. "History and civilizations", May 10, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-7574-2123-9,read online) p. 229–241
