ABSTRACT
In Comtean reason Maurras saw a defence against the individualism of the Romantics and the disorders of Revolution, and in Comtean method he saw a way of establishing Truth which did not depend on the theological speculation. Maurras went further and claimed that they were not even part of what was truly French. This could only be argued if there was enough evidence to show that it was a fact and not an opinion, and this was the aim of Maurrassian positivism. Maurras never recovered from the damage he did to himself and others in this period of positivist exultation. But if the True France of Maurras ever consisted of the real people and not just abstract the ideas, then Maurras had abandoned and betrayed thousands of True French people when he called for the arrest and execution of Resisters.
