[2] Fabrègues joined the right wing and royalist Action Française and was the secretary of Charles Maurras, but moved from there to a "traditionalist" catholicism.

[4] Fabrègues was given leave from teaching in 1937, and became director of the journal Civilization and of the éditions Masson collections of classics for schools from 1937 to 1939.

[1] In the 1930s Jean de Fabrègues was at the center of the Young Catholic Right, a group that lost direction when the Pope condemned the Action Française.

They followed the views of people such as Jacques Maritain, Georges Bernanos, Henri Massis, Étienne Gilson, François Mauriac and Gabriel Marcel.

[5] At the start of the German occupation of France Roland Laudenbach co-edited the literary review Prétexte with Jean Turlais and François Sentein [fr].