Maurice Clavel (1920-1979) was a French writer, journalist, and philosopher. Maurice Clavel was born on 10 November 1920 in Frontignan, HĂ©rault to a family headed by a father who was a pharmacist. This conservative milieu of small shopkeepers in Languedoc led him to be an activist in the French Popular Party (FPP) in his hometown of Frontignan. A brilliant pupil, he got into the prestigious Ăcole Normale SupĂ©rieure in the Rue d'Ulm