Georges-Paul Wagner (26 February 1921 - 11 June 2006) was a French lawyer, monarchist and deputy of the
far-right
Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...
Bertrand Renouvin
Bertrand Renouvin (born 15 June 1943 in Paris) is a French political figure, who is the founder and president of French political movement Nouvelle Action Royaliste.
Family
Renouvin's father, Jacques Renouvin, was a hero of the French Resista ...
. Opposed to the NAF's policies in the name of the hard-wing, he distanced himself from it in 1974. Wagner was elected deputy of the
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.French legislative elections in 1986, under the colours of the ''Rassemblement national'' which gathered members of the National Front and candidates supported by
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (, born 20 June 1928) is a French far-right politician who served as President of the National Front from 1972 to 2011. He also served as Honorary President of the National Front from 2011 to 2015.
Le Pen graduated fro ...
's party. Wagner was not reelected in 1988.
He founded in October 1986 the Institut d'Histoire et de Politique along with Roland Hélie and Philippe Colombani, a formation center of the National Front.
He has published books criticizing
parliamentarism
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, and another one named "The trial of Maurras." Georges-Paul Wagner participated to ''
Présent
''Présent'' was a French newspaper (published five days a week). The paper was founded in 1982. It was close to the French Front National, and followed a traditionalist Catholic editorial line. Jean Madiran
Jean Arfel (14 June 1920 – 31 July 2 ...
'', a far-right review linked to the FN. He has defended in court Jean-Marie Le Pen, as well as members of the
OAS
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Chemistry
* O-Acetylserine, amino-acid involved in cysteine synthesis
Computers
* Open-Architecture-System, the main user interface of Wersi musical keyboards
* OpenAPI Specification (originally Swagger Specification), ...
terrorist movement who tried to assassinate General
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
at Le Petit-Clamart in 1962. He obtained the acquittement of Michel-Georges Micberth in the affair of the Pompidou's checks.
He succeeded in June 2001 to the historian Pierre Chaumeil at the head of the ''Association professionnelle de la presse monarchiste française'' (Professional Association of French Monarchist Press), created in 1882. He died on June 11, 2006.