Jacques Ploncard (13 March 1910 – 20 February 2005), also called "Jacques Ploncard d'Assac", was a

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writer and journalist and a political activist – he was, among other things, a member of the

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. Following the fall of the Vichy regime, he escaped to Portugal's '' Estado Novo'' in 1945, where he counselled Salazar. He introduced

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, one of the co-founders of the

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, to the PIDE. After the April 1974

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, he returned to France and collaborated on '' Présent'', a newspaper which maintained loose links with Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Jacques Ploncard also wrote ''Doctrines of Nationalism''.

Selected bibliography

* ''Pourquoi je suis anti-juif'' (''Why I Am Anti-Jew''), 1938 * ''La Franc-maçonnerie ennemie de l'Europe'' (''Freemasonry, Europe's Enemy''), 1943 *''Doctrines du nationalisme'', 1958 * ''Salazar'', 1967 Under the pen-name "La Vouldie": * ''Mme Simone de Beauvoir et ses mandarins'' (''Madame

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and her Mandarins''), 1955 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ploncard, Jacques 1910 births 2005 deaths People from Chalon-sur-Saône French Popular Party politicians People affiliated with Action Française People of Vichy France French Integralism Order of the Francisque recipients French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers