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Maurice Clavel
Maurice Clavel () was a French writer, journalist, and philosopher. He was born on 10 November 1920 in Frontignan, Hérault, and died on 23 April 1979 in Asquins, Yonne.
Youth.
Maurice Clavel was born on 10 November 1920 in a family headed by a father who was a pharmacist. This conservative milieu of small shopkeepers in Languedoc led him to be an activist in the French Popular Party (FPP) in his hometown of Frontignan.
A brilliant pupil, he got into
took classes with Jean Hervé and Jean Valcourt.
In 1939, aged 16, she met Maurice Clavel, who directed the Resistance network in Eure-et-Loir. Under the pseudonym "Sinclair" (the name of a hill that looms over Sète), she participated in the liberation of Nogent-le-Rotrou and of Chartres in 1944. She was one of the notables who welcomed General De Gaulle on the square in front of the Cathedral of Chartres. Once the war ended, she married Maurice Clavel.