Charles Maurras, photo 1 of 2
Charles Maurras, photo 2 of 2

Photo credit

Photo
Charles Maurras, photo Studio Harcourt, 1937
By
Studio Harcourt
Licence
Public domain
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

Photo
Charles Maurras 1892
By
Louis Denis-Valvérane (1870-1943)
Licence
Public domain
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Changes
Resized

莫拉斯

Mòlāsī
proper noun #36,172

Meanings

  1. 1 Maurras (e.g. Charles Maurras, controversial French nationalist writer)
  2. 2 Morath / Moras (foreign surname transliteration)

About Charles Maurras

1868–1952 · 作家 writer

French writer and political theorist who led the royalist, nationalist movement Action Française. He backed the Vichy regime and in 1945 was sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration with Germany.

Also called  夏尔·莫拉斯

Examples

HSK 6
Mòlāsī de zhèngzhì sīxiǎng zhìjīn réng yǒu zhēngyì.
Maurras's political ideas remain controversial to this day.
HSK 7-9
夏尔·莫拉斯是法国行动派的创始人之一。
Xià'ěr Mòlāsī shì Fǎguó Xíngdòngpài de chuàngshǐrén zhīyī.
Charles Maurras was one of the founders of the French 'Action Française.'

Tips

usage
The 斯 at the end is there because Maurras is one of the French names whose final s is sounded (mo-RASS). Sentenced in 1945, he cried out 'It's Dreyfus's revenge!', a jab at the Jewish officer he had campaigned against half a century earlier.

Stroke Order

莫 mò
拉 lā
斯 sī