Pierre Vial
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Pierre Vial (born 25 December 1942) is an academic medievalist tied to the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. A Nouvelle Droite leader, he is the founder of the Identitarian association Terre et Peuple.
Biography
Pierre Vial was born on 25 December 1942.[1] He was in his youth a contributor in Cahiers universitaires, the magazine of the Federation of Nationalist Students.[2]
He co-founded the Nouvelle Droite think tank GRECE in 1968, and was its secretary general from 1978 to 1984. He promoted a neopagan stance in the vein of Marc "Saint-Loup" Augier.[3] In 1973 he co-founded the neo-pagan scouting organization Europe-Jeunesse.[4]
In 1988 he became a member of the Front National (FN) where he joined the leadership ranks.[3] Both in GRECE and in the FN, Vial complained of a lack of focus on the ethnic dimension of identity, and eventually decided to establish his own movement Terre et Peuple in 1994, launched publicly in 1995.[3][5]
In a public declaration delivered at a Terre et Peuple meeting in May 2000, Vial lamented the "ethnic colonization" of France by non-European immigrant communities with a different "biological infrastructure". The "true cultural revolution", Vial ventured, was "the ethnic revolution, the revolution of identity".[6]
References
- ^ Pierre Vial. BNF.
- ^ Shields 2007, p. 96.
- ^ a b c Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 137.
- ^ Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 142.
- ^ Zúquete 2018.
- ^ Shields 2007, p. 148.
Bibliography
- Camus, Jean-Yves; Lebourg, Nicolas (2017). Far-Right Politics in Europe. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674971530.
- Shields, James G. (2007). The Extreme Right in France: From Pétain to Le Pen. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415372008.
- Zúquete, José Pedro (2018). The Identitarians: The Movement against Globalism and Islam in Europe. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268104245.
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