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 far-right, neopagan association Terre et Peuple.
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| Born | 25 December 1942 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Medievalist, activist |
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]
Vial joined the Front National (FN) in 1988. The same year, he obtained a teaching position at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.[4] He soon reached the leadership ranks of the FN,[3] serving as a member of the Institute of Formation of the party.[5] 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][6]
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".[7]
References
- Pierre Vial. BNF.
- Shields 2007, p. 96.
- Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 137.
- Rousso 2004, p. 67.
- François 2005, p. 56.
- Zúquete 2018.
- 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). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-18. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
- 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.