Lettres des Jeux olympiques (Letters from the Olympic Games) is a correspondence between the French journalist and politician Charles Maurras and Gustave Janicot, editor-in-chief of La Gazette de France written between April 8 and May 3, 1896.

[1]Fascinated by the azure blue of the Mediterranean, his heart beats faster as he approaches the epicenter of the classical world; the wind that blew around the boat could have no other name than Zephyr.

» Thus ended this first letter dated April 15.As soon as he arrived at the Games, Charles Maurras put the success of the German athletes into perspective: "It was because they had no French competitors in front of them."

[4] Maurras returns deeply shaken by his trip to Greece, from which he draws several lessons reported in Anthinéa and Les Vergers de la mer.

[5] Maurras extends this observation to France, which would have "continued to retreat on land and sea since the Old Regime was swept away and, with it, the balanced and sovereign foreign policy of the Capetians, which did not depend on this or that parliamentary majority to choose their allies and their wars.