Maurice Rollet

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.

Maurice Rollet
Born(1933-01-30)30 January 1933
Joigny, France
Died21 January 2014(2014-01-21) (aged 80)
NationalityFrench
OccupationPoet, activist and medical doctor

Biography

In the 1960s he was a far right-wing activist who was involved 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 organization 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 with Jean-Claude Valla and Jean Mabire.[4] Unlike some Nouvelle Droite activists who only adopted paganism as an intellectual position, Rollet saw it as an everyday attitude. 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 his 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 appeared as a film actor in The Rebel in 1980 and La Flambeuse in 1981.[6]

He died on 21 January 2014.[1]

Bibliography
  • 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.

References

Notes
  1. Camus 2014.
  2. François 2005, p. 155.
  3. Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 133.
  4. Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 142.
  5. François 2005, pp. 467–468.
  6. Ciné-ressources.

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.)
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