 He stayed in the city for nearly a year, and while studying at the Institute of Agriculture he was exposed to the right-wing, proto-fascist ideas of writer Charles Maurras.Maurras was a French counter-revolutionary who founded the far-right political movement known as "Action Française" and whose writings went on to influence European fascists and the ideologues of the Vichy Regime during World War II.Ljotić described Maurras as a "rare shining spirit" and cited him as one of his greatest intellectual influences.