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23-456: FANE activity was limited: the group had at most a hundred activists. It published a review, Notre Europe , related to François Duprat 's Revolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR), and a news sheet, L'Immonde , which exalted "National-Socialist and White" Europe and proclaimed the "struggle to the death against the Judeo - materialist hydra ." Members of FANE included Luc Michel , now leader of

46-456: A decree of the Council of Ministers on September 30, 1980, under the third cabinet of Raymond Barre . Recreated, it was dissolved again on January 23, 1985, by Laurent Fabius 's government, and a third time on September 16, 1987, by Jacques Chirac 's government, on charges of "violent demonstrations organized by this movement, which has as one of its expressed objectives the establishment of

69-708: A member of Occident , which carried out street brawls against the Maoists and other left-wing students. However, he was excluded in 1967, accused of being a police informant . Duprat then took part in the Ordre Nouveau movement (New Order), and became the editor of L'Action européenne (European Action) and of the Revue d'histoire du fascisme (History Review of Fascism), which introduced in France Holocaust denial thesis supported by far right circles in

92-481: A new Nazi regime," the " paramilitary organisation of this association and its incitations to racial discrimination ." Fran%C3%A7ois Duprat François Duprat ( French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa dypʁa] ; 26 October 1940 – 18 March 1978) was a French essayist and politician, a founding member of the Front National party and part of the leadership until his assassination in 1978. Duprat

115-803: The Parti communautaire national-européen (National European Community Party), Jacques Bastide, Michel Faci, Michel Caignet and Henri-Robert Petit , a journalist and former collaborationist who had directed the newspaper Le Pilori under the Vichy regime . The FANE maintained international contacts with the British group the League of Saint George . The FANE rallied Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front in 1974, gathered around François Duprat and Alain Renault's Revolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR). It broke with

138-585: The National Front (FN) headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen , and was part of its political bureau until his death in 1978. He represented the hard-liners of the party, and directed the Groupes nationalistes révolutionnaires (National Revolutionary Groups), alongside Alain Renault. François Duprat saw history as a political weapon, stating in May 1976: We must not let to our opponents, Marxists and régimistes ,

161-755: The Revue d'histoire du fascisme. " Duprat wrote a book on far right movements in France from 1940 to 1944, during the Collaborationist regime of Vichy . He also created a number of magazines and political reviews, including the Cahiers d'histoire du fascisme (History Notebooks on Fascism) and the Cahiers Européens-Notre Europe (European Notebooks – Our Europe), which also circulated denialist books or far right literature exalting

184-511: The Third Reich . Duprat was killed on 18 March 1978, in a car-bomb explosion. His wife Jeanine was also injured in the attack, losing the use of her legs. He was finishing a book titled Argent et politique (Money and Politics) concerning the funding of right-wing and far-right political parties. There are many theories about the assassination, but historian Michel Winock notes that perpetrators and their motives have never been established;

207-559: The US war effort. Occident actively participated in this Front. Following violent confrontations during the May 1968 turmoils, Occident was termed an illegal violent group and dissolved by the administration of Charles de Gaulle on 31 October 1968 by application of the 1936 law on combat groups and private militias. The Vietnam War had replaced the Algerian War as the battleground of

230-753: The cimetière de Montmartre . At the 30th anniversary of his death, LePen paid tribute to his being a "martyr to the cause of freedom of thought", "a fighter", and "politician right to the tips of his fingers". Occident (movement) Occident was a French far-right militant group, active in France between 1964 and 1968 and considered the "main activist group on the extreme right in the 1960s". Occident activists were known for their "commando" actions against various "enemy" targets, such as left-wing students, PCF offices, immigrant associations, and anti-colonialists. A number of former Occident members later became prominent figures in mainstream right-wing parties; some even obtained ministerial positions. The movement

253-792: The English-world. Duprat, along with Maurice Bardèche , a significant role in far-right anti-Zionist movement in France . In 1967, he led a rally for the Liberation of Palestine. Duprat's anti-Zionism is fundamentally antisemitic, with him blaming all Jews for human rights abuses committed by Israel . This position was in the minority, with Dominique Venner criticizing Duprat for his support for "communist Arabs" and arguing that Israel should not be confused with "the Jewish International." In 1972, François Duprat co-founded

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276-932: The FN again in 1978, taking with it parts of the FNJ members (youth organization of the FN). After this brief spell in the FN, Fredriksen created the Faisceaux Nationalistes Européens (FNE) in July 1980. This group would eventually merge with the Mouvement national et social ethniste in 1987, and then with the French and European Nationalist Party (PNFE) in January 1994. The FANE was dissolved in September 1980 by

299-662: The addresses happened to be his private residence. His funeral at the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet was attended by the leading lights of the nationalist right, which included the National Front, the PFN , monarchists and right-wing solidarists . Le National , a far right political review, honoured him in April 1978 as one of the French leaders of "the 'revisionist' historical school" who had introduced in France "one of

322-491: The assassination could have been commissioned by a rival far right organisation. He recalled that Duprat had been excluded in 1967 from Occident after allegations that he was a police informant. According to Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop, Duprat was killed for his links with the Syrian government . Shortly before the assassination, Patrice Chairoff had published names and addresses of publishers which were tied to Duprat; one of

345-562: The far right against communist expansionism . Occident proclaimed itself "a violent movement and proud of it", active to "defend the West wherever it fights". Building on a "rudimentary fusion of nationalism, neo-fascism and social Darwinism ", Occident was strongly anti-communist and anti-liberal. They called for the establishment of a corporatist economic regime and promoted the overthrow of "the Masonic and plutocratic republic", through

368-738: The far right and became a member of the Jeune Nation and the Federation of Nationalist Students (FEN). Strongly opposed to Algerian independence during the Algerian War (1954–62), Duprat was a member of the Organisation armée secrète . After the March 1962, Evian agreements granting independence to Algeria, he traveled to Katanga , supporting the secession led by Moise Tshombe . He became Tshome's Director of Propaganda on Radio-Katanga. Thereafter, he returned to France, where he became

391-519: The group that someone had tipped off the police. Patrick Devedjian, summoned for an alleged meeting, was brutally interrogated by fellow members, including waterboarding in a bathtub. Devedjian escaped in the nude. In January 1968, Roger Holeindre (future vice-President of the National Front ) founded the Front uni de soutien au Sud-Viêt-Nam (United Front in Support of South Vietnam) which supported

414-437: The monopoly of the historical representation of men, facts and ideas. Because History is a wonderful war instrument, and it would be useless to deny that one of the important reasons of our political hardships resides in the historical exploitation and the systematic deformation of the nationalist experiences of the past... It is in order to answer these needs... that a team of intellectuals, professors and nationalists have created

437-572: The most explosive booklets" of Richard Harwood , member of the British National Front and author of the negationist pamphlet " Did Six Million Really Die? " The Cahiers européens – Notre Europe diffused this pamphlet starting in February 1976. The anonymous author of this text had been identified by Pierre-André Taguieff as likely being André Delaporte. Each year Jean-Marie Le Pen pays his respects at Duprat's gravesite at

460-819: The outset, Occident appeared as a remake of Jeune Nation , an older neo-fascist group Sidos had created back in 1949, and disbanded by the authorities in 1958. Occident similarly used the Celtic Cross as their emblem, and violent activism played a significant part in their political agenda. On January 12, 1967, a group of Occident members attacked the Vietnam committees on the campus of the University of Rouen . About 20 members of Occident were arrested, including Gérard Longuet , Alain Madelin and Patrick Devedjian (all future right-wing ministers). Suspicions arose in

483-471: The police investigation into his assassination was inconclusive. A Jewish "Remembrance Commando" and a "Jewish Revolutionary Group" immediately claimed responsibility for the murder. The perpetrators of the bombing were never found, while Jean-Pierre Bloch , director of the LICRA anti-racist NGO, condemned the killing. In Génération Occident: de l'extrême droite à la droite , Frédéric Charpier alleged that

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506-520: Was banned by the French authorities in October 1968, following violent confrontations with left-wing groups during the May 1968 events. Occident was founded in April 1964 by Pierre Sidos and dissidents from the Parisian section of the Federation of Nationalist Students (FEN), following their defection from the white nationalist movement Europe-Action (1963–66), led by Dominique Venner . At

529-631: Was one of the main architects in the introduction of Holocaust denial in France. François Duprat was born on 26 October 1940, in Ajaccio , Corsica , and was educated in Bayonne , Toulouse , at the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris . He graduated in history at the Sorbonne , earning a diploma of higher studies in history in 1963. A communist in his teenage years, François Duprat moved to

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