The first fascist : the life and legacy of the Marquis de Morès

Luzzatto, Sergio, 1963-2026

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Decades before Mussolini, the Marquis de Morès was the first populist and openly antisemitic leader in the Western world. A key figure behind the Dreyfus affair, he took France by storm with his inflammatory media rhetoric and violent stunts. Morès invoked the fasces - the ancient Roman bundle of wooden rods - to symbolize the society he wished to create: a union of all social classes against their enemy, the Jews. Driven by personal ambition and the loss of aristocratic status in modern, democratic France, Morès embarked on an extraordinary career spanning four continents: from cattle ranching on the American frontier to building a railway in the jungles of Indochina. But his efforts were dogged by failure. In this book, historian Sergio Luzzatto explores the untold story of the rise and fall of the Marquis as well as his ominous legacy.