This muddled and to some extent contradictory vision (though a rabid anti-Semite, Maurras despised other kinds of racism, regarding them as too German) exerted a considerable intellectual pull, not only on French thinkers of the right but also on conservatives as diverse as Charles de Gaulle, Spain’s Francisco Franco, King Albert of Belgium, the Portuguese dictator António Salazar, and even the Anglo-American poet T. S. Eliot.
