Votre bel aujourd'hui (Your Glorious Today: Last Letter to Monsieur Vincent Auriol, President of the IVð Republic) is a posthumous book by the French journalist and politician Charles Maurras published in 1953. The work serves as a rebuttal to the book Yesterday and Tomorrow, written by President of the Republic Vincent Auriol and published in 1944.
Following the Hiroshima bombing, Charles Maurras began drafting an extended letter addressed to Vincent Auriol in response to his 1944 book Yesterday and Tomorrow, which analyzed the events leading to the military disaster of 1940 and proposed post-war projects. Maurras vigorously refuted Auriol's work point by point. The text was completed in April 1950 while Maurras was incarcerated at Clairvaux Prison and published in 1953, one year after his death.
Historian Martin Motte explains that Maurras focused on three major challenges in the post-Second World War era.
First, Maurras criticized moves for European unification: