Jean Raspail

Biography

Jean Raspail is a former member of the National council of the Parti the new forces (the NFP), where he was writer with national Initiative . He is since sympathizer of the royalist movement national Restauration. Jean Raspail is also general consul of the Royaume of Araucanie and Patagonie. He writes sometimes in Le Figaro .

Its work headlight remains the Camp of the Saints , appeared in 1973, in which the writer described the immersion of France by the stranding on the Riviera of a fleet of boats in ruins from India, charged with refugees. Incapacity so much of the public authorities than of the population to be reacted vis-a-vis this invasion, peaceful, but fraught with consequences for our already old Civilization, Raspail drew a tragic joke with the prophetic accents. 30 years afterwards, it made of it a self-criticism noticed in Le Figaro .

A certain number of works also evoke Patagonie, through the assertion of the kingdom of Patagonie and Araucanie by Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, acknowledged of Périgueux, in second half of, very as much as in the evocation of the history and the tragic destiny of these areas of the end of the world. In 1984, the writer unloaded with the Minquiers to make there float the flag of the Kingdom of Patagonie.

He postulated with the French Academy in 2000 and collected the most voice, without however obtaining the necessary majority to be elected with the vacant seat of Jean Guitton.

Publications

Ground of fire - Alaska (1952) - account of adventures
Grounds and Peuples Incas (1955)
the Wind of the Pines (1958)
Holy Lands and Laymen (1960)
the Widows of Santiago (1962)
Hong-Kong, China in deferment (1963)
Let us shake the coconut (1966) - accounts of voyage
Secouons the coconut: 2, Caribbean Punch (1970) - accounts of voyage
Welcome Honourable Visitors (Wind of the pines) (1970) - Romance
the Tom-tom of Jonathan (1971) - new
Armada of the Last Chance (1972)
the Camp of the Saints (1973) - Romance
the Axe of the Steppes (1974)
Red Newspaper Skin (1975)
White Cloud and Redskins of today (1975 ) - signed Aliette and Jean Raspail
Play of the King (1976) - Romance
Boulevard Raspail (1977) - chronic
Redskins today (1978)
North (1979) - Romance
Blue Caribbean and lemons: my last voyages to the Antilles (1980)
the Antilles, of island in island (1980)
Me, Antoine de Tounens, king de Patagonie (1981) - Romance Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy
Hussards: exemplary stories (1982)
Eyes of Irene (1984) - Romance
the President (1985) - Romance
Which remembers the men… (1986) - Romance
the blue Island (1988)
Pêcheurs of the Moon (1990)
Lord (1990) - Romance
Vive Venice (1992) - signed Aliette and Jean Raspail
Seven riders left the city in the twilight by carry West which was not kept any more (1993) - Romance (commonly called Seven riders… )
the Ring of the fisherman (1995) - Romance
Hurrah Zara! (1998) - Romance
the King beyond the sea (2000) - Romance
Adiós, Tierra del Fuego (2001)
the Sound of the drums on snow and other news besides (2002)
Kingdoms of Borated (2003) - Romance
In boat on water the ways of the king, an adventure in America (2005), Albin Michel - account of voyage

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