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Alphonse de Châteaubriant | |
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 Alphonse de Châteaubriant in 1933 | |
| Born | 25 March 1877 Rennes, France |
| Died | 2 May 1951 (1951-05-03) (aged 74) Kitzbühel, Austria |
Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (French pronunciation:[alfɔ̃sdəʃɑtobʁijɑ̃]; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) was a Frenchwriter who won thePrix Goncourt in 1911 for his novelMonsieur de Lourdines andGrand prix du roman de l'Académie française forLa Brière in 1923.
After a visit to Germany in 1935 he became an enthusiastic advocate forNazism.[1]
Along with otherBreton nationalists[citation needed] he supportedfascist andanti-semitic ideas in opposition to the French state. In 1940 he founded the pro-Nazi weekly newspaperLa Gerbe and served as President of theGroupe Collaboration.[2] During World War II, he was a member of the central committee of theLégion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme, an organisation founded in 1941 byFernand de Brinon andJacques Doriot to recruit volunteers to fight alongside the Germansin the USSR. In 1945 he fled toAustria, where he lived under the alias Dr. Alfred Wolf until his death at a monastery inKitzbühel.
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