Châteaubriant, Alphonse de (1877-1950). French novelist and polemicist. His initial fame came as a Catholic novelist, his Monsieur des Lourdines (1911), a nostalgic depiction of the values of a country gentleman, winning the Prix Goncourt, and La Briére (1923) the Grand Prix du Roman. He later expressed strong enthusiasm for Nazi Germany in La Gerbe des forces (1937), and during World War II edited La Gerbe, a leading collaborationist journal. He was condemned to death in 1945, but died in exile.
[Richard Griffiths]
