Pierre Vial

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.

Pierre Vial
Pierre Vial in 2012.
Born (1942-12-25) 25 December 1942
NationalityFrench
OccupationMedievalist, activist
Not to be confused with Pedro Vial.

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, serving as its secretary general from 1978 to 1984. Vial 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]

Vial joined the Front National (FN) in 1988. The same year, he obtained a teaching position at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.[5] He soon reached the leadership ranks of the FN,[3] serving as a member of the Institute of Formation of the party.[6] However, Vial complained in both GRECE and the FN of a lack of focus on the ethnic dimension of identity, and he eventually decided to establish his own movement Terre et Peuple in 1994, launched publicly in 1995.[3][7]

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".[8]

References
  1. Pierre Vial. BNF.
  2. Shields 2007, p. 96.
  3. Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 137.
  4. Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 142.
  5. Rousso 2004, p. 67.
  6. François 2005, p. 56.
  7. Zúquete 2018.
  8. Shields 2007, p. 148.
Bibliography
Camus, Jean-Yves; Lebourg, Nicolas (2017). Far-Right Politics in Europe. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674971530.
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.)
Rousso, Henry (2004). Rapport sur le racisme et le négationnisme à Lyon III (PDF) (Report).
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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