Maurras was born into a Provençal family, brought up by his mother and grandmother in a Catholic and monarchist environment. In his early teens, he became deaf. Like many other French politicians, he was affected greatly by France's defeat in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. After the 1871 Commune of Paris and the 1879 defeat of Marshal MacMahon's "Moral Order" government, French society slowly found a consensus for the Republic, symbolized by the rallying of the monarchist Orleanists to the Republic. Maurras published his first article, at the age of 17 years, in the review "Annales de philosophie chrétienne". He then collaborated on various reviews, including "L’Événement", "La Revue bleue", "La Gazette de France" and "La Revue encyclopédique", in which he praised Classicism and attacked Romanticism.