Amaury de Chaunac-Lanzac (born 11 February 1942), better known as François d'Orcival, is a French

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...

journalist and essayist. He is the president of the editorial committee at '' Valeurs Actuelles'' and sits on the board of directors of the publisher

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.Pascal Dillane
Un ancien dirigeant de l’extrême droite représente la presse française
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Biography

Amaury de Chaunac-Lanzac was born on 11 February 1942 in

Aurignac Aurignac (; oc, Aurinhac) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France, close to the Pyrénées. It was the seat of the former canton of Aurignac (population 4,160), which was composed of 19 communes. It is part of the an ...

Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country' ...

. Aged 18, he joined the

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movement

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. Early in his political involvement, he took the pseudonym François d'Orcival. In 1960, he was one of the founding members of the Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (FEN). He supported the

Organisation armée secrète The ''Organisation Armée Secrète'' (OAS, "Secret Armed Organisation") was a far-right French dissident paramilitary organisation during the Algerian War. The OAS carried out terrorist attacks, including bombings and assassinations, in an atte ...

and was arrested in 1962, then jailed for four weeks. D'Orcival was editor-in-chief of the FEN magazine, ''Les Cahiers universitaires'', from 1961 to 1967. Between 1963 and 1966, he also wrote for the far-right magazines '' Défense de l’Occident'', led by Maurice Bardèche, and ''

Europe-Action ''Europe-Action'' was a far-right white nationalist and euro-nationalist magazine and movement, founded by Dominique Venner in 1963 and active until 1966. Distancing itself from pre-WWII fascist ideas such as anti-intellectualism, anti-parliame ...

'', edited by

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and

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. In July 1966, d'Orcival joined '' Valeurs Actuelles'', then ''

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'', both edited by

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. He also wrote for ''Le'' ''Nouveau Journal.'' Meanwhile, he was involved in the creation of the Nationalist Movement of Progress (MNP). d'Orcival joined ''Valeurs Actuelles'' again in 1968, then co-founded with

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members the magazine ''

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'' in 1970. d'Orcival remained a member of ''Nouvelle École'''s editorial board until 1976. The following year, he became the editor-in-chief of ''Valeurs Actuelles'' and was involved with

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in the creation of ''

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'' in 1977–1978. From 1984, d'Orcival served as the director of publication at ''Valeurs Actuelles''.'''' In 1998, he was elected president of the Syndicat Professionnel de la Presse Magazine et d'Opinion (SPPMO), an organization which includes – besides ''Valeurs Actuelles –'' ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' or '' L’Humanité hebdo''. In 2004, he was elected president of the Fédération Nationale de la Presse Française (FNPF). From 2006, d'Orcival has also worked as an editorialist at ''Le'' ''Figaro Magazine.'' On June 23, 2008, d'Orcival was inducted into the

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, following the death of Henri Amouroux.Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
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'', 19/07/2012

Bibliography

*''Le Courage est leur patrie'' (1965, with

) *''Rhodésie, pays des lions fidèles'' (1966, with Fabrice Laroche) *''Le Danube était noir - la cause de la Slovaquie indépendante'' (1968) *''Les Marines : scènes de la vie et des combats du corps des Marines des États-Unis'' (1971) *''Histoire de la Gestapo'' (1973, with Fabrice Laroche, Jean Mabire and André Brissaud) *''Les Marines à Khé Sanh'' (1968, with Jacques-François de Chaunac) *''Le Roman de l'Elysée'' (2007) *''L'Elysée fantôme : Les années noires'' (2011) *''Le nouveau roman de l'Élysée'' (2012) *''Histoires de l'Élysée'' (2017)

References

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