Maurice Rollet

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

Maurice Rollet (30 January 1933–21 January 2014) was a French poet, activist and medical doctor. He sometimes used the pseudonym François Le Cap.

Biography

In the 1960s he was a far right-wing activist who was involved 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 organization GRECE. According to Rollet the organization was founded at his birthday party in Marseille on 29 January 1968, although this account has been contested.[1]

In 1973 he co-founded the neopagan scouting organization Europe Jeunesse with Jean-Claude Valla and Jean Mabire.[2] Unlike some Nouvelle Droite activists who mainly regarded paganism as an intellectual position, Rollet always took the pagan sensibility very seriously. He held contact with the World Congress of Ethnic Religions based in Vilnius.[3]

His poetic works are marked by his neopaganism. Some of his lyrics have been set to music by the singer Docteur Merlin.[4]

He appeared as a film actor in The Rebel in 1980[5] and La Flambeuse in 1981[6] and composed music for Pierre and Djemila in 1986.[7]

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

  1. ↑ Jean-Yves Camus, Nicolas Lebourg. 2017. Far-Right Politics in Europe. p. 133. ISBN 9780674971530
  2. ↑ Camus and Lebourg 2017. p. 142.
  3. ↑ Stéphane François. 2009. Les paganismes de la Nouvelle Droite (1980-2004). p. 467-68.
  4. ↑ Décès de Maurice Rollet.
  5. ↑ "Le Rebelle - CF". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr.
  6. ↑ "La Flambeuse - CF". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr.
  7. ↑ "Pierre et Djemila - CF". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr.
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