Christian Bouchet
Christian Bouchet | |
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| Born | 17 January 1955 Angers,Maine-et-Loire,France |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, politician |
Christian Bouchet(French pronunciation:[kʁistjɑ̃buʃɛ];born 17 January 1955) is a Frenchfar-rightjournalist and politician.
Biography
[edit]Coming from a far-right family with monarchist andOrganisation armée secrètelinks, in 1970 Bouchet joined the monarchist groupRestauration nationale,and, in 1971, a member ofNouvelle Action françaisewhich was a split (called in France a "Mao-maurrassien"group) of the former.[1]
In 1973, he served in theOrganisation lutte du peuple,a nationalist revolutionary splitter group of the far-right movementOrdre Nouveauintended to defend the nationalist movements of the Third World, particularly the Arab states opposed toZionismand what they perceived as American imperialism. He subsequently became a member ofFrançois Duprat'sGroupes nationalistes révolutionnairesand of theRevolutionary Nationalist Movement(Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire) ofJean-Gilles Malliarakis[2]After a spell in theTroisième Voiehe set upNouvelle Résistancein 1991, whilst also refounding the European Liberation Front.[3]This group was absorbed byUnité Radicalein 1998. He then went on to lead the study groupRéseau Radicalwhich emphasisedanti-Zionism[4]and after that the association Les Nôtres. He also led the 'radical' tendency within theNational Republican Movementand has sat on its national council. Bouchet, who was an exponent of theThird Positionuntil 1990, was later influenced byAleksandr Duginand advocatedNational Bolshevismand thenEurasianism.
After declaring that he had broken with his former activism, he joined theFront Nationalin 2008 and became a local branch leader from October 2010 to May 2011 and from March 2013 onwards.[5]He has been a Front National candidate in every election since 2008 and in 2013, the Front National chose him to lead its list for the municipal elections inNantes(the 6th town of France).[6][7]He is the father of Gauthier Bouchet, the FN municipal councillor of Saint-Nazaire.
He published journals likeLutte de PeupleandRésistancewhich focused onultra-nationalistand anti-Zionist themes. He owned the publishing house Ars magna and Avatar which published volumes ofSavitri Devi,Jean-François Thiriart,Francis Parker Yockey,Gabriele d'Annunzio,Aleksandr Duginand others.[8]
In the original edition of his bookHitler's Priestess,Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote that Bouchet has been associated withNazi mysticismand that, whilst spending a year inIndia,he met Savitri Devi to studyKali Yugaand her ideas aboutAdolf Hitleras anAvatar.[9]These claims did not however appear in theFrench languageedition of the same work.[10]In the postscript to the bookLe national-socialisme et la tradition indienne,Bouchet claimed that Goodrick-Clarkes's allegations were false, that he had met Savitri Devi only once and considered her to be acrank,and that he has no personal interest in Nazi mysticism.[11]Bouchet, who claims he is not an Islamophobe, has advocated a closer link between European nationalist groups and Muslim traditionalists.[12]
Christian Bouchet wrote a PhD in anthropology in theUniversity Paris DiderotonAleister Crowleyand has written many books about extremist involvement in politics and religion.[13]
References
[edit]- ^Biographical interviewArchived28 September 2007 at theWayback Machine
- ^Biographical interviewArchived28 September 2007 at theWayback Machine
- ^Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke,Hitler's Priestess
- ^'France'Archived19 November 2012 at theWayback Machinefrom theStephen Roth Institute
- ^"List of the FN branch leaders in Loire-Atlantique".Archived fromthe originalon 26 March 2016.Retrieved25 August2013.
- ^"Christian Bouchet investi tête de liste du Front National à Nantes".Archived fromthe originalon 6 September 2013.Retrieved25 August2013.
- ^Christian Bouchet investi tête de liste du Front National à NantesArchived23 June 2013 atarchive.today
- ^""Je suis un des animateurs des Éditions Ars magna ainsi qu'éditeur-associé aux Éditions Avatar"".Archived fromthe originalon 25 May 2012.Retrieved25 August2013.
- ^Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke,Hitler's Priestess,p. 216
- ^Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke,Savitri Devi, la prêtresse d'Hitler,Akribeia, 2000.
- ^Savitri Devi Mukherji, Lenational-socialisme et la tradition indienne,Avatar, 2004.
- ^'French intellectual Christian Bouchet on why the nationalist Right should welcome Islam'
- ^Books of Christian Bouchet in catalogue SUDOCBooks of Christian Bouchet in catalogue Worldcat
External links
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- VoxNRwebsite created by Christian Bouchet
- Bouchet's written works
- Interview with Bouchet
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