Denis Tillinac (26 May 1947 – 26 September 2020) was a French writer and journalist.Denis Tillinac n'aurait pas pu être de gauche : « Chez eux, tout se vaut »
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Biography

As a writer, he received the following

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s: Prix de la Table ronde française (1982),

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(1983), Prix Kléber-Haedens (1987), Prix Jacques-Chardonne (1990), Prix du roman populiste (1993), Grand prix de littérature sportive (1993), Prix Paul-Léautaud (1999). He wrote a weekly column in '' Valeurs actuelles''. He was close to

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. In 2012, he wrote an

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to ask her to support

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in the second round of the

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. He was a

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and wrote books about the Catholic origins of France. Tillinac died on 26 September 2020 at the age of 73.Mort de Denis Tillinac, écrivain, éditeur et polémiste qui animait la vie de la droite
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List of publications

*''Les Corréziens'', (with Pierre Dauzier,

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, 1991) *''En désespoir de causes'' *''Le mystère Simenon'' *''L'Ange du désordre'' *''Elvis : Balade sudiste'' *''Je nous revois...'' *''Le Bonheur à Souillac'' *''Le rêveur d'Amériques'' *''Sur les pas de Chateaubriand'' *''Boulevard des Maréchaux'' *''L'Irlandaise du Dakar'' *''Chirac le Gaulois'' *''Le Jeu et la Chandelle'' (1994) *''Dernier verre au Danton'' (1996) *''Don Juan'' (1998) *''Ou va le monde?'' (co-author with

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and

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, 2000) *''Le Dieu de nos pères, défense du catholicisme'' (

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, 2004) *''Dictionnaire amoureux de la France'' (with Alain Bouldouyre, Plon, 2008) *''Rue Corneille'' (Editions de La Table Ronde, 2009) *''Femmes de guerre, texte in Inconnues corréziennes, résonances d'écrivains.'' (co-author, Editions Libel, 2009) *''Dictionnaire amoureux du catholicisme'' (Plon, 2011) *''Considérations inactuelles'' (Plon, 2012)

References

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