Under Goebbels auspices the participating members ( e. g. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Robert Brasillach ) founded the " Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung " ( European Writers ' League ), officially in March 1942.

* February 6 – French writer Robert Brasillach is executed for collaboration with the Germans.

In the 1940s Anouilh and several other intellectuals signed a petition for clemency to save the writer Robert Brasillach, who was condemned to death for being a Nazi collaborator.

* Le reine de Césarée ( 1954 ), a French drama by Robert Brasillach

In the 1943 edition of his famous Histoire du cinéma, Robert Brasillach wrote that the film was amongst Renoir's most jumbled and confused but applauded the biting satire, which he considered Proustian, and the technical variation employed by the director, ultimately concluding that the film was an unrealised masterpiece.

During 1930s – especially after the 6 February 1934 crisis — many of Action Française members turned to fascism, such as Robert Brasillach, Lucien Rebatet, Abel Bonnard, Paul Chack, Claude Jeantet, etc.

At the same time he continued to express elements of his longstanding germanophobia by arguing in La Seule France that Frenchmen must not be drawn to the German model and by hosting anti-German conferences and he opposed both the " dissidents " in London and the collaborators in Paris and Vichy ( such as Lucien Rebatet, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Laval, or Marcel Déat ).

It thus continued to recruit members from the new generations, such as Robert Brasillach ( who would become an infamous collaborationist ), Thierry Maulnier, Lucien Rebatet, etc.

He remained a bitter opponent of the fascist, anti-semitic novelist and journalist Robert Brasillach, who was the principal leader of the pro-Nazi collaborationist movement, and was active in the Resistance.

2, Georges Sorel, Charles Maurras, Georges Valois, Abel Bonnard, Henri Béraud, Louis Rougier, Lucien Rebatet, Robert Brasillach.

Robert Brasillach ( 31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945 ) was a French author and journalist.

A group called Association des Amis de Robert Brasillach celebrates the author's work and legacy.

* 1932 Le Procès de Jeanne d ' Arc ( edited and introduced by Robert Brasillach ) ( The Trial of Joan of Arc )

* 1970 Vingt lettres de Robert Brasillach ( Twenty Letters )

* 2002 Relectures Robert Brasillach ( Re-reading Robert Brasillach )

* Fascist Ego: A Political Biography of Robert Brasillach by William R. Tucker ISBN 0-520-02710-8

* The Ideological Hero in the Novels of Robert Brasillach, Roger Vailland & Andre Malraux by Peter D. Tame ISBN 0-8204-3126-5

* Translation of Notre Avant-Guerre / Before the War by Robert Brasillach, Peter Tame ISBN 0-7734-7158-8

* Robert Fulford's column about Marguerite Duras & Robert Brasillach from The National Post

Charles Maurras, Georges Valois, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jules Romains, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Jacques Doriot, and André Gide

* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.

* 1909 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( d. 1978 )

In 1909, Robert Andrews Millikan began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by a single electron.

# 1905 – 1909 Robert Watchorn ( Republican )

The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909.

* John Robert Brown ( judge ) ( 1909 – 1993 ), member of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights

The term microevolution was first used by botanist Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in the journal Botanical Gazette in 1909, addressing what he called the " mystery " of how formlessness gives rise to form.

The conquest of the North Pole was for many years credited to US Navy engineer Robert Peary, who claimed to have reached the Pole on 6 April 1909, accompanied by Matthew Henson and four Inuit men, Ootah, Seeglo, Egingwah, and Ooqueah.

Avery writes on his web site that " The admiration and respect which I hold for Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and the four Inuit men who ventured North in 1909, has grown enormously since we set out from Cape Columbia.

* 1909 – Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director ( d. 2010 )

* 1909 – Robert Trout, American reporter ( d. 2000 )

New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.

Amundsen had problems and hesitation raising funds for the departure and upon hearing in 1909 that first Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary claimed the Pole, he decided to reroute to Antarctica.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

* March 3 – Robert Beatty, Canadian actor ( b. 1909 )

* April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist ( b. 1909 )

** Robert Ryan, American actor ( b. 1909 )

* June 24 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( b. 1909 )

* September 28 – Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer and choreographer ( b. 1909 )

* Hungarian — Lehér, Franz: The Count from Luxembourg ( 1909 ; libretto by A. M. Willner, Robert Bodanzky, and Leo Stein ; with roles for Pierrot and Pierrette ).

Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. ( May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920 ) was an American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole.

Robert Peary and Captain Robert Bartlett, standing on ship, Battle Harbour, Labrador in 1909

New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.