Abstract: The nobiliary affiliation underpins all of Bernanos’s work in the manner of a regret or lost ideal, but also of a wager on the world, and hope. In place of a theory or proper system of thought, the combative work appeals to the values of a spiritual aristocracy, more idealised than real, in which references to the history of an old, Christian, and monarchic France establish the author’s project, which is as much poetic as political.
