Maurice Vaussard
Maurice Vaussard (8 September 1888 – 24 February 1978) was a 20th-century French writer and essayist.

Author of numerous historical and political essays, a specialist in Italian history and the Christian Democrats, Maurice Vaussard was editor at the  (of Jacques Bainville and Henri Massis) and at Le Monde from 1945 to 1972. He was awarded numerous prizes by the Académie française.

Prizes 
1922: Prix Bordin for L’intelligence catholique dans l’Italie au XXe siècle
1926: Prix Montyon for Sainte Marie-Madeleine de Pazzi (1566–1607)
1951: Prix d’Académie for Histoire de l’Italie contemporaine
1959: Prix Louis Barthou for ensemble de son œuvre
1962: Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) for ensemble de son œuvre
1967: Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises
1974: Prix de l’Académie for ensemble de ses travaux historiques

He is buried in the 29th division of the Père-Lachaise Cemetery.

Bibliography 
 Ilaria Biagioli, Maurice Vaussard. Un cristiano e l'eresia nazionalista, in Cattolicesimo e totalitarismo. Chiese e culture religiose tra le due guerre mondiali (Italia, Spagna, Francia), a cura di Daniele Menozzi e Renato Moro, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2004.

External links 
 Nouvelles perspectives après l’ouverture à gauche on Le Monde diplomatique
 Maurice Vaussard, Histoire de l'Italie contemporaine (1870–1946) on Persée
 Maurice Vaussard on the site of the Académie française

Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature)
20th-century French writers
20th-century French essayists
20th-century French historians
French nationalists
People from Somme (department)
1888 births
1978 deaths
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery