Alphonse de Châteaubriant

Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) 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 La Brière in 1923.

After a visit to Germany in 1935 he became an enthusiastic advocate for Nazism.

Along with other Breton nationalists he supported fascist and antisemitic ideas in opposition to the French state. In 1940 he founded the pro-Nazi weekly newspaper La Gerbe and served as President of the Groupe Collaboration. During 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 the USSR. In 1945 he fled to Austria, where he lived under the alias Dr. Alfred Wolf until his death at a monastery in Kitzbühel.

Works 1908: Le Baron de Puydreau (novella) 1909: Monsieur de Buysse (novella) 1911: Monsieur des Lourdines (novel - Prix Goncourt) 1923: La Brière (novel - Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française) 1927: La Meute 1928: Locronan 1933: La Réponse du Seigneur 1937: La Gerbe des forces 1937: Le bouquet fané 1938: Les pas ont chanté 1953: ...Des saisons et des jours... Journal de l'auteur, 1911-1924 2004: Fragments d'une confession – La sainteté