Maurice Rollet

French journalist, poet and activist

Maurice Rollet

Born	(1933-01-30)30 January 1933 Joigny, France
Died	21 January 2014(2014-01-21) (aged 80)
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Poet, activist and medical doctor

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.

Biography

In the 1960s, he was involved as a far right-wing activist 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 think tank 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 alongside Jean-Claude Valla and Jean Mabire.^[4] Unlike some Nouvelle Droite activists who only adopted paganism as an intellectual position, Rollet saw it as a true way of life. 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 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 acted in the movies The Rebel (1980) and La Flambeuse (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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Camus 2014.
^ François 2005, p. 155.
^ Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 133.
^ Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 142.
^ François 2005, pp. 467–468.
^ 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.)