Max Doumic
Julien-Maxime-Stéphane Doumic (8 June 1863 – 11 November 1914), better known as Max Doumic, was a French architect and essayist. He was a volunteer and captain in the Foreign Legion. He died on the field of honor in 1914, in the Zouave woods before Reims. He was the brother of René Doumic.
Biography
Julien-Maxime was born at the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, the son of Clair-Camille Doumic, a merchant, and his wife Claire-Caroline Levasseur. An architect, he was a former member of the Société des Études Historiques.[1] He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (1883–1893) and, from 1907 to 1909, he was director of the architecture department at the Montreal Polytechnic School, Canada. He returned to France following a dispute with the High Commercial Studies of Montreal over a commission.
A former reserve officer (lieutenant in the 118th Territorial Infantry Regiment), he asked to return to service before the declaration of war. He was voluntarily enlisted at the age of 52, and wished to join an active formation in the Foreign Legion.
He was then entrusted with the training of a company of Polish volunteers[2] in battalion C of the 2nd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment. On the night of November 10-11, while passing the inspection of the sentries, he took his place on a battlement and was fatally shot in the neck. He is buried in the National Necropolis at Sillery, Marne.
Works
- L'Escrime Pratique au XIXe Siècle, by Ambroise Baudry (1893; prefaces de Daniel Cloutier and Max Doumic)
- L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, Conférence Faite le 22 mars 1897 (1897)
- Le Secret de la Franc-maconnerie (1905; 1910) — Doumic maintains that Masonic policy is generally in line with what English interests require[3] from which it emerges that for him, Masonry is the organ of Anglo-Saxon imperialism.[4] The Secret of Freemasonry was awarded by the French Academy's J. J. Weiss Prize in 1915.
- La Franc-maçonnerie est-elle Juive ou Anglaise? (1906; with Dominique Delahaye)
- "L'Éducation de Nos Artistes et Leurs Œuvres aux Salons de 1907", Le Correspondant (25 May 1907)
- "Porquoi Notre Architecture est-elle en Décadence?," Le Correspondant, Vol. 243 (1911)
- "Nos Églises en Danger":
- "I. Les Églises de l'Aube," Le Correspondant, Vol. 243 (1911)
- "II. Les Églises L'Yonne", Le Correspondant, Vol. 244 (1911)
- "III. Les Églises du Jura," Le Correspondant, Vol. 245 (1911)
- "IV. Dans la Région du Sud-Est," Le Correspondant, Vol. 247 (1912)
Notes
- ↑ Abbé F. Jacques, Cherves-Chatelars. Porte du Limousin. Ruffec: Picat (1913), p. 10.
- ↑ Gabriel Garçon, Bajończycy–Les Bayonnais: Les Volontaires Polonais dans la Légion Étrangère. Bouvignies: Les Éditions Nord Avril (2017).
- ↑ Paul Copin-Albancelli, La Guerre Occulte. Les Sociétés Secrètes Contre les Nations. Paris: Perrin (1925), p. 164.
- ↑ Jules Boucher, La Symbolique Maçonnique. Paris: Éditions Dervy, p. XIII.
References
- Henry Bordeaux, "Max Doumic," La Revue Hebdomadaire, No. 12 (1915), pp. 326–54.
- René Doumic, "Max Doumic." In: Anthologie des Écrivains Morts à la Guerre, 1914-1918. Amiens: E. Malfère (1925).
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