François d'Orcival
 François d'Orcival    (editor) | |
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| Member of | Le Cercle |
François d'Orcival is a French conservative intellectual. He is the editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles and sits on the Board of Directors of the publisher Valmonde.[1][2]
Biography
As a young man, he was a leader in Jeune Nation.[1] In 1960, he was one of the founding members of the Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (FEN).[1] He supported the Organisation de l'armée secrète and was arrested in 1962, when he was jailed for four weeks .[1] He was editor-in-chief of the FEN magazine, Les Cahiers universitaires, and started writing for Le Spectacle du Monde, whose editor was Raymond Bourgine.[1] He also wrote for Défense de l’Occident and Europe Action, edited by Dominique Venner and Alain de Benoist.[1] He later joined the Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne, but left it in 1976.[1][3] In 1977-1978, he wrote for Le Figaro, then edited by Louis Pauwels.[1] He later became the editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles.[1][4]
In 2004, he was elected President of the Fédération Nationale de la Presse Française (FNPF).[1] On June 23, 2008, he was inducted into the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, following the death of Henri Amouroux.[5] He is a socially conservative Catholic.[4]
Deep Political connections
He was a protege of Le Cercle member Raymond Bourgine and himself attended Le Cercle regularly.[6]
Bibliography
- Le Courage est leur patrie, avec Fabrice Laroche (1965, with Alain de Benoist)
- Rhodésie, pays des lions fidèles (1966, with Fabrice Laroche)
- Le Danube était noir - la cause de la Slovaquie indépendante (1968)
- Les Marines : scènes de la vie et des combats du corps des Marines des États-Unis (1971)
- Histoire de la Gestapo (1973, with Fabrice Laroche, Jean Mabire and André Brissaud)
- Les Marines à Khé Sanh (1968, with Jacques-François de Chaunac)
- Le Roman de l'Elysée (2007)
- L'Elysée fantôme : Les années noires (2011)
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1993 | 22 April 1993 | 25 April 1993 | Greece Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel Vouliagmeni | The 41st Bilderberg, held in Greece |
| Le Cercle/1984 (Bonn) | 5 July 1984 | 7 July 1984 | Germany Bonn | Held in Bonn, West Germany, the list of the 36 visitors was published online in 2011. |
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Pascal Dillane, Un ancien dirigeant de l’extrême droite représente la presse française, ACRIMED, February 2005
- ↑ Valeurs Actuelles
- ↑ JP Rioux, M Harbi, J.F. Sirinelli, La guerre d'algerie et les intellectuels français, Editions Complexe, 1999, p. 61 [1]
- ↑ a b Xavier Ternisien, Une filière "Valeurs actuelles" à la tête du "Figaro", Le Monde, 19/07/2012
- ↑ Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
- ↑ http://www.isgp.nl/Le_Cercle_membership_list
