Name Jean Raspail Role Author | ||
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Books The Camp of the Saints, Qui se souvient des hommes ... Parents Marguerite Chaix, Octave Raspail Awards Grand Prix du roman de l'Academie francaise | ||
Nominations Prix Goncourt des Lyceens | ||
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Jean Raspail (born 5 July 1925 at Chemillé-sur-Dême, Indre-et-Loire) is a French author, traveler and explorer. He is best known for his controversial 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass third world immigration to Europe.
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- Jean raspail ce soir ou jamais feb 2011 1 2 english sub
- Modern day Prophet Jean Raspail The Camp of Saints
- Life and career
- Works
- Adaptations
- References
Modern day Prophet Jean Raspail "The Camp of Saints"
Life and career
Jean Raspail is 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 Ecole des Roches in Verneuil-sur-Avre.
During the first twenty years of his career Raspail traveled the world to discover populations threatened by their confrontation with modernity. He led a Tierra del Fuego–Alaska car trek in 1950–52 and, in 1954, a French research expedition to the land of the Incas. Raspail served as Consul General of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia. In 1981, his novel Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie (I, Antoine of Tounens, King of Patagonia) won the Grand Prix du Roman (award for a novel) of the Académie française.
His traditional Catholicism serves as an inspiration for many of his utopian works, in which the ideologies of communism and liberalism are shown to fail, and a 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 most widely known work, The Camp of the Saints (1973), Raspail predicts the collapse of Western civilization owing to an overwhelming "tidal wave" of Third World immigration. The book has been translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian, Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Polish and Portuguese, and as of 2006 it had sold over 500,000 copies. Today the novel is popular among white supremacists and has been reprinted by John Tanton's The Social Contract Press. After The Camp of the Saints Raspail wrote other successful novels, including North, Sire and The Fisher's Ring.
Raspail was a candidate for the French Academy in 2000, for which he received the most votes yet did not obtain the majority required for election to the vacant seat of Jean Guitton.
An article which he wrote in Le Figaro on 17 June 2004, entitled "The Fatherland Betrayed by the Republic", in which he criticized the French immigration policy, was sued by 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. In 2007 he was awarded the Grande Médaille d’Or des Explorations et Voyages de Découverte by the Société de géographie of France for the whole of his work. In 2009, the Editions of Methuselah rewarded him the Wartburg Literary Award for the whole of his work.
He lives in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris.