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Jean Mabire
Born(1927-02-08)8 February 1927
Paris,Île-de-France
Died29 March 2006(2006-03-29)(aged 79)
Saint-Malo,Brittany
NationalityFrench
OccupationJournalist

Jean Mabire(8 February 1927—29 March 2006) was a French journalist and essayist. Aneo-paganandnordicist,Mabire is known for theregionalistandeuronationalistideas that he developed in bothEurope-ActionandGRECE,as well as his controversial books on theWaffen-SS.

Biography

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Early life

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Jean Pol Yves Jacques Mabire was born inParison 8 February 1927,[1]to a bourgeois family originally fromVire,Normandy.He attended theCollège Stanislas,where he earned abaccalauréatin literature and philosophy.[2]

In 1949, at the age of 22, Mabire created theregionalistmagazineVikingand in 1951 left Paris to settle inCherbourg,Normandy, where he founded agraphic artsworkshop.[3]Mabire wrote the majority of the 162 articles published by the magazine until its end in 1958.Vikinghad 300 to 400 subscribers and the most popular issues sold around 1,000 copies. He regarded theNormansas part of the "Nordic race"and his magazine gave a great importance to Scandinavian cultures and Viking history.[4]

Political activism

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In 1958, Mabire was sent as a reserved soldier to North Africa during theAlgerian War(1954–62) and demobilized in October 1959 as a Reserve Captain.[5]Between 1963 and 1965, he wrote articles in Philippe Héduy'sL'Esprit public,and was a contributor inCahiers universitaires,the magazine of theFederation of Nationalist Students(FEN). In 1965, he was part of the grassroots committees of far-right presidential candidateJean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour,and wrote in January a book to explain his endorsement.[6]

From 1965, he served as the redactor-in-chief ofEurope-Action,[2][6]in which he wrote aboutneo-paganism,theWaffen SSand theCharlemagne Regiment.[7]Mabire was one of the architects of theeuro-nationalistbreak with the oldFrench nationalismsupported by the magazine. He supported instead a pan-European nationalism, decentralized and based on the identities of regions, seen as smaller ethnic nations, a thesis later embodied inYann Fouéré's "Europe of 100 Flags",published in 1968.[8]His shift towards the radical right was confirmed in many articles Mabire published inLe Spectacle du Monde,Valeurs ActuellesorMinute.[2][6]

In 1968, Mabire became a founding member of theMouvement Normand,[9]and the following year he helped Georges Bernage establishHeimdal,aregionalistmagazine and intellectual successor ofViking.Mabire wrote inHeimdalabout Norman poets,NordicismandScandinavian mythology.The magazine was a success and sold at more than 3,000 copies.[6]He became an active member ofGRECEin 1970, and took part in its "federal council" and "commission of traditions".[10]

In 1973, Mabire co-founded theneopaganscouting organizationEurope-JeunessewithJean-Claude VallaandMaurice Rollet.[8]The same year, Mabire's literary career began with the publication of a saga on the history of the French SS:La Brigade Frankreich, La Division CharlemagneandMourir à Berlin.He participated, along with otherGRECEmembers Pierre Vial andJean Haudry,in the founding of the associationTerre et Peuplein 1995.[11]

Later life and death

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After his wife's death from cancer in 1974, he married Katherine Hentic in 1976, with whom he had three children.[12]He moved in 1982 to Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine), in the Saint-Servan quarter. Jean Mabire died ofleukemiaon 29 March 2006 inSaint-Malo,Brittany,at the age of 79.[13]

Controversy

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His books on theWaffen-SShave been regarded as important scientific study of Nazism.[14]Mabire describes for instance some units in those terms: "TheSScarry thePrometheustorch andSigurd's sword to the Caucasus. They are the sons of the old Germanic warriors who emerged from the ice and forests. They are theTeutonicswho replaced the cross of Christ with the wheel of the Sun. They areAdolf Hitler's SS. "[15]

Works

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On History
  • Les Hors-la-loi.Robert Laffont, 1968; re-edited asCommando de chasse
  • Les Samouraï,with Yves Bréhéret. Paris, Balland, 1971
  • Les Waffen SS,under the pseudonym "Henri Landemer". Balland, 1972
  • La Brigade Frankreich.Fayard, 1973
  • Ungern, le Baron fou.Balland, 1973; corrected re-edition asUngern, le dieu de la guerreandUngern, l'héritier blanc de Genghis Khan
  • La Division Charlemagne.Fayard, 1974
  • Mourir à Berlin,Paris. Fayard, 1975
  • Les Jeunes Fauves du Führer. La division SS Hitlerjugend en Normandie.Fayard, 1976
  • L'Été rouge de Pékin.Fayard, 1978
  • Les Panzers de la Garde Noire.Presse de la Cité, 1978
  • La Division « Wiking ».Fayard, 1980
  • Les Paras du matin rouge.Presses de la Cité, 1981
  • La Crète, tombeau des paras Allemands.Presses de la Cité, 1982
  • Chasseurs alpins. Des Vosges aux Djebels.Presses de la Cité, 1984;Écrivains Combattantsprize
  • Les Paras perdus.Presses de la Cité, 1987.
  • Les Diables verts de Cassino.Presses de la Cité, 1991.
  • Les Paras de l'enfer blanc, Front de l'Est 1941-1945.Presses de la Cité, 1995
  • Division de choc Wallonie, Lutte à mort en Poméranie.Éditions Jacques Grancher, 1996
  • Les Guerriers de la plus grande Asie.Du Alpha, 2004
On paganism
  • Thulé, le soleil retrouvé des Hyperboréens.Paris, Robert Laffont, 1978.
  • Les Solstices. Histoire et Actualité,with Pierre Vial. GRECE, 1975
  • Les Dieux maudits.Copernic, 1978; re-edited asLégendes de la mythologie nordique
  • Balades au cœur de l'Europe païenne(collective work). Les Éditions de la forêt, 2002.
On Normandy
  • Histoire de la Normandie,en collaboration avec Jean-Robert Ragache (Hachette, 1976; réédition: France-Empire, 1986, 1992): awarded by theMouvement Normand
  • Les Vikings, rois des tempêtes,with Pierre Vial. Versoix, 1976; re-edited asLes Vikings à travers le monde
  • La Saga de Godefroy Le Boiteux.Copernic, 1980; re-edited asGodefroy de Harcourt, seigneur normand
  • Histoire secrète de la Normandie.Albin Michel, 1984
  • Guillaume le Conquérant.Art et Histoire d'Europe, 1987
  • Les Ducs de Normandie.Lavauzelle, 1987
  • Grands Marins normands.L'Ancre de Marine, 1993
  • Légendes traditionnelles de Normandie.L'Ancre de Marine, 1997
  • Jean Mabire et le Mouvement Normand.Éditions de l'Esnesque, 1998
  • Vikings: cahiers de la jeunesse des pays normands.Veilleur, 1999
  • La Varende entre nous.Présence de La Varende, 1999
  • Des poètes normands et de l'héritage nordique.Antée, 2003

References

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  1. ^"Jean Mabire (1927-2006)".BNF.
  2. ^abcJacob 1981.
  3. ^Hamelin & Marpeau 2009,pp. 271–271.
  4. ^Hamelin & Marpeau 2009,pp. 286–287.
  5. ^Shields 2007,p. 96.
  6. ^abcdHamelin & Marpeau 2009,pp. 288–290.
  7. ^Picco, Pauline (2018).Liaisons dangereuses: Les extrêmes droites en France et en Italie (1960-1984)(in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes. p. 91.ISBN9782753555761.
  8. ^abCamus & Lebourg 2017,p. 142.
  9. ^Lamy 2016,p. 89.
  10. ^Marpeau 1993,p. 234.
  11. ^François, Stéphane(2019). "Guillaume Faye and Archeofuturism". InSedgwick, Mark(ed.).Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy.Oxford University Press.p. 94.ISBN978-0-19-087760-6.
  12. ^https://jean-mabire /bio/
  13. ^Jahan, Sébastien (2007).Histoire de la colonisation: réhabilitations, falsifications et instrumentalisations(in French). Indes savantes. p. 166.ISBN9782846541688.
  14. ^Bruneau, Ivan (2002). "Un mode d'engagement singulier au Front national. La trajectoire scolaire effective d'un fils de mineur".Politix. Revue des sciences sociales du politique.15(57): 183–211.doi:10.3406/polix.2002.1214.
  15. ^Mabire, Jean (1976).Les Jeunes Fauves du Führer, la Division SS Hitlerjungend dans la bataille de Normandie,Fayard, pp. 46–47.

Bibliography

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Further reading

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  • Francis Bergeron,Jean Mabire, écrivain de la guerre et de la mer,Paris, Du Alpha, 2014.
  • Patrice Mongondry,Mabire,Grez-sur-Loing, Pardès, coll. « Qui suis-je? », 2018.
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