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The Vile and the Louche

David Todd, 25 June 2026

The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès 
by Sergio Luzzatto.
Allen Lane, 488 pp., £30, February, 978 0 241 71581 9
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... territory and cleansing it of undesirable aliens. By framing Morès as ‘the first fascist’, Sergio Luzzatto reopens the debate on the origins of fascism. His book avoids contentious arguments about the nature of fascism, focusing instead on fascist praxis and the way Morès pioneered the methods later made famous by the Blackshirts in Italy and the ...

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