Jean Raspail

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Jean Raspail
Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (2003)
Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (2007)
Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand
(2008)

Jean Raspail (French pronunciation:

third-world immigration to Europe
.

Life and career

Born on 5 July 1925 in Chemillé-sur-Dême, Indre-et-Loire, Raspail was the son of factory manager Octave Raspail and Marguerite Chaix. He attended private Catholic school at Saint-Jean de Passy in Paris, the Institution Sainte-Marie d'Antony and the École des Roches in Verneuil-sur-Avre.

During the first twenty years of his career Raspail traveled the world. He led a

Académie française.[4][5]

His

Catholic monarchy is restored. In his 1990 novel Sire a French king is crowned in Reims in February 1999, the 18-year-old Philippe Pharamond de Bourbon
, a direct descendant of the last French kings.

In his best known work, The Camp of the Saints (1973), Raspail predicts the collapse of Western civilization from an overwhelming "tidal wave" of Third World immigration. The "hordes" of the world rise and, in the words of playwright Ian Allen, "destroy the white race."[6] The book has been translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian, Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian and Portuguese, and as of 2006 it had sold over 500,000 copies.[7] After The Camp of the Saints Raspail wrote other novels, including North, Sire, and The Fisher's Ring. Raspail reiterated these views in a co-written 1985 article ("Will France Still Be French in 2015?") for Le Figaro magazine, where he stated "the proportion of France's non-European immigrant population will grow to endanger the survival of traditional French culture, values and identity".[8]

Raspail was a candidate for the French Academy in 2000, for which he received the most votes,[9] yet did not obtain the majority required for election to the vacant seat of Jean Guitton.

An article by Raspail for

International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism on the grounds of "incitement to racial hatred
", but the action was turned down by the court on 28 October.

In 1970, the Académie française awarded Raspail its Jean Walter Prize for the whole of his work.

Société de géographie of France for the whole of his work.[12]

Personal life

He lived in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. He died in the Henri-Dunant Hospital [fr] on 13 June 2020, aged 94.[13]

Works

Adaptations

  • Le Roi de Patagonie (1990), TV mini-series directed by Georges Campana and Stéphane Kurc[14]
  • Le Jeu du roi (1991), TV film directed by Marc Evans[15]
  • L'Île bleue (2001), TV film directed by Nadine Trintignant[16]
  • Sept cavaliers (2008–2010), comic book in three volumes by Jacques Terpant
  • Le Royaume de Borée (2011–2014), comic book in three volumes by Jacques Terpant

Quotations

  • "One cannot be a man, fully, from the moment one admits that others exist. For one is no more than a copy, a vague facsimile drawn from a billion examples. One mustn't know anything about others, or at least by ruthless choice, unless it is how to invent oneself on one's own, – everything has been so repeated."[17]
  • "Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door."[18]

References

  1. ^ "La promotion de la Légion d'honneur du nouvel an HOMMAGE". La Croix. 2 January 2004.
  2. ^ "[LITTÉRATURE] Jean Raspail a 89 ans". Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  3. ^ Dupuis, Jérôme (6 April 2011). "Le camp des Saints, de Jean Raspail, un succès de librairie raciste?". LExpress.fr (in French). The Express. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  4. ^ Dupuis, Jerome (6 April 2011). Le camp des Saints, de Jean Raspail, un succès de librairie raciste? (in French). L'Express. En 1981, il a reçu le Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française pour Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie
  5. ^ "Grand Prix du Roman | Académie française".
  6. ^ Allen, Ian (30 July 2018). "Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  7. ^ "El desembarco | Ediciones áltera". edicionesaltera.com. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  8. ^ Miller, Judith (3 November 1985). "French Article Sets Off Furor on Immigrants". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. ^ Release Académie française.
  10. ^ La patrie trahie par la république Le Figaro, 17 June 2004
  11. ^ Académie française, Prix Jean Walter Lauréats.
  12. ^ "GRANDE MÉDAILLE D'OR DES EXPLORATIONS ET VOYAGES DE DÉCOUVERTE (in French)". Société de géographie. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  13. ^ Naulin, Michaël (13 June 2020). "Mort de Jean Raspail, écrivain et explorateur, auteur du "Camp des Saints"" (in French). Le Figaro. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  14. ^ "Le roi de Patagonie (TV Mini Series 1990– ) - IMDb". IMDb.
  15. ^ ""Cinéma 16" le jeu du roi (TV Episode 1991) - IMDb". IMDb.
  16. ^ "L'Île bleue (TV Movie 2001) - IMDb". IMDb.
  17. ^ Raspail, Jean (2022). Septentrion. Sunny Lou Publishing.
  18. ^ Raspail, Jean (1973). The camp of the saints. Éditions Robert Laffont.

Sources

  • Jarvis GE. Raspail, racism, and migration: Implications for radicalization in a polarizing world. Transcultural Psychiatry. 2021;58(5):616-631. doi:10.1177/1363461520930921
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