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Gonzague de Reynold was a Swiss writer, historian, and right-wing political activist born on the 15th of June 1880 and died on the 9th of April 1970. Over a six-decade career he wrote more than thirty books advancing a traditionalist Catholic and Swiss nationalist worldview. He also served as the Swiss delegate to the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations from 1922 to 1939.
Gonzague de Reynold won the Schiller Prize in 1955.
De Reynold served as the Swiss delegate to and rapporteur of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation from its inception in 1922 until its demise in 1939. That body was part of the League of Nations and was a precursor to UNESCO. He used the position to promote the interests and values of the Catholic Church within the organisation.
De Reynold was born at his family's sixteenth-century chateau in Cressier, in the Fribourg region of Switzerland. He studied at Collège Saint-Michel, the Sorbonne, and the Institut Catholique de Paris, before returning to Switzerland to teach at the University of Bern and the University of Fribourg.
De Reynold formed a group known as the troika of Fribourg writers of the early twentieth century alongside René de Weck and Léon Savary.
De Reynold was consistently sceptical of liberal democracy and scathing about modernity. He held traditionalist Catholic and Swiss nationalist views, described Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar as a friend in personal letters, and paid a personal visit to Benito Mussolini in 1933.