title: Maurice Vaussard
text: # Maurice Vaussard
  
  Maurice Vaussard (8 September 1888 – 24 February 1978) was a 20th-century French writer and essayist.
  
  Author of numerous historical and political essays, a specialist in Italian history and the Christian Democrats, Maurice Vaussard was editor at the Revue universelle [fr] (of Jacques Bainville and Henri Massis) and at Le Monde from 1945 to 1972. He was awarded numerous prizes by the Académie française.
  
  ## Prizes
  
  * 1922: Prix Bordin for L’intelligence catholique dans l’Italie au XXe siècle
  * 1926: Prix Montyon for Sainte Marie-Madeleine de Pazzi (1566–1607)
  * 1951: Prix d’Académie for Histoire de l’Italie contemporaine
  * 1959: Prix Louis Barthou for ensemble de son œuvre
  * 1962: Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) for ensemble de son œuvre
  * 1967: Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises
  * 1974: Prix de l’Académie for ensemble de ses travaux historiques
  
  He is buried in the 29th division of the Père-Lachaise Cemetery.
  
  