Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel Monsieur de Lourdines and Grand prix du roman de l"Académie française for Louisiana Brière in 1923.
Career
Along with other Breton nationalists he supported fascist and anti-semitic ideas in opposition to the French state. In 1940 he founded the pro-Nazi weekly newspaper Louisiana Gerbe and served as President of the Groupe Collaboration. In 1945 he fled to Austria, where he lived under the alias Doctor Alfred Wolf until his death at a monastery in Kitzbühel.
Politics
After a visit to Germany in 1935 he became an enthusiastic advocate for Nazism.
Membership
During World World War II, he was a member of the central committee of the Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme, an organisation founded in 1941 by Fernand de Brinon and Jacques Doriot to recruit volunteers to fight alongside the Germans in Russia.