Henri Vaugeois

Henri Vaugeois was a French teacher and journalist who was one of the founders of rightwing nationalist Action Franaise movement.

Vaugeois was born in LAigle, Orne, onApril 1864. He settled in Coulommiers, where he taught philosophy. Initially a republican liberal, Vaugeois even flirted with Marxism in his youth. However he later came to side with the antiDreyfus camp. In April 1898, at the height of the Dreyfus affair, the circle of leftist intellectuals to which Vaugeois belonged became supporters of Alfred Dreyfus. Vaugeois and Maurice Pujo left this group.

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