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Maurice Rollet
French journalist, poet and activist
Maurice Rollet (30 January 1933 – 21 January 2014) was a French poet, activist and medical doctor.[1] He sometimes used the pseudonym François Le Cap.
In the 1960s, he was involved as a far right-wing activist with Jeune Nation, Europe-Action, and supported the OAS, for which he was imprisoned. In 1968 he was one of the co-founders of the Nouvelle Droite think tank GRECE and became its first president.[2] According to Rollet, the organization was founded at his birthday party in Marseille on 29 January 1968, although this account has been contested.[3]
In 1973 he co-founded the neopagan scouting organization Europe-Jeunesse alongside Jean-Claude Valla and Jean Mabire.[4] Unlike some Nouvelle Droite activists who only adopted paganism as an intellectual position, Rollet saw it as a true way of life. He described what he called his "native faith" (French: foi native) as an individual approach based on rootedness, harmony with the cosmos, the constant search for physical and moral aesthetics, tolerance, and respect for the "Other".[1] Rollet held contact with the World Congress of Ethnic Religions based in Vilnius.[5]
His poetic works are marked by neopaganism. Some of his lyrics have been set to music by the singer Docteur Merlin, and are featured on the album Soleil de Pierre.[1] Rollet acted in the movies The Rebel (1980) and La Flambeuse (1981).[6]
He died on 21 January 2014.[1]
- Des Rimes et des Runes (in collaboration with Perig Kerys), Pyrene, 1980
- Le Mai 68 de la Nouvelle Droite (anthology), Labyrinthe, 1998
- Michel Marmin (ed.), Liber Amicorum Alain de Benoist, Les Amis d'Alain de Benoist, 2004
- Rencontre avec Robert Dun (anthology), Les Amis de la Culture Européenne, 2006
- Balades au cœur de l'Europe païenne (anthology), Les Éditions de la forêt, 2002.
Notes
- François 2005, p. 155.
- Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 133.
- Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 142.
- François 2005, pp. 467–468.
Sources
- Camus, Jean-Yves (22 January 2014). "Maurice Rollet est mort". Fragments sur les Temps Présents (in French). Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- Camus, Jean-Yves; Lebourg, Nicolas (2017). Far-Right Politics in Europe. Translated by Todd, Jane Marie. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674971530.
- "Database search for Maurice Rollet". Ciné-ressources (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- François, Stéphane (2008). Les néo-paganismes et la Nouvelle droite, 1980-2006: pour une autre approche (in French). Archè. ISBN 978-88-7252-287-5. (adapted from François (2005). Les paganismes de la Nouvelle Droite (1980-2004) (PhD thesis). Université du Droit et de la Santé - Lille II.)