Jean-Claude Valla (16 May 1944 – 25 February 2010) was a French journalist and a prominent figure of the
Nouvelle Droite
The Nouvelle Droite (; en, "New Right"), sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s. The Nouvelle Droite is at the origin of the wider European New Right (ENR). Vario ...
.
Biography
Early life
Jean-Claude Valla was born on 16 May 1944 in
Roanne
Roanne (; frp, Rouana; oc, Roana) is a commune in the Loire department, central France.
It is located northwest of Lyon on the river Loire. It has an important Museum, the ''Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie Joseph-Déchelette'' (Fre ...
,
Loire
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.
Between 1962 and 1965, he was the leader the
Federation of Nationalist Students
The Federation of Nationalist Students (''french: Fédération des Étudiants Nationalistes'', FEN) was a French far-right student society active between 1960 and 1967, founded by François d'Orcival and others, soon joined by Alain de Benoist as ...
(FEN) branch in Lyon, serving also in two redaction committees: in the FEN magazine ''Cahiers Universitaires'', and in ''
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 ...
'', a
white nationalist
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review founded in 1963 by
Dominique Venner
Dominique Venner (; 16 April 1935 – 21 May 2013) was a French historian, journalist and essayist. Venner was a member of the Organisation armée secrète and later became a European nationalist, founding '' Europe-Action'', before w ...
.
GRECE
Valla was a founding member of
GRECE
The Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne ("Research and Study Group for European Civilization"), better known as GRECE, is a French ethnonationalist think tank founded in 1968 to promote the ideas of the Nouvelle ...
, an
ethno-nationalist
Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various politi ...
think tank set up in January 1968. He also participated in the founding of the scouting organization
Europe-Jeunesse in 1973. After the launch of GRECE magazine ''
Éléments'' in September 1973, Valla became its redactor-in-chief.
Between 1974 and 1978, he also served as the secretary general of GRECE. Valla supported the pseudoscientific thesis of the colonization of
Peru
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by the
Vikings
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and ...
in his book ''La Civilisation des Incas'', published in 1976. He worked as a managing director at the
''Figaro Magazine'' until 1979, before leaving GRECE in 1986.
Later life and death
In the 1990s, he was appointed editorial director of the far-right weekly newspaper ''
Minute''. Responding to an article by Georges Charbonneau published in GRECE bulletin and declaring that the organization did not support Holocaust deniers, Valla wrote in 1991 that he denied GRECE's legitimacy to speak for all the
Nouvelle Droite
The Nouvelle Droite (; en, "New Right"), sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s. The Nouvelle Droite is at the origin of the wider European New Right (ENR). Vario ...
movement.
Valla also stood up for Holocaust denier
Robert Faurisson in an issue of ''Figaro-Magazine'', and for the editor of
negationist
Historical negationism, also called denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. It should not be conflated with '' historical revisionism'', a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinter ...
thesis
Jean Plantin in the Nouvelle Droite magazine ''
Éléments'' in 2002.
He died on 25 February 2010 in
Arthez-d'Asson
Arthez-d'Asson ( oc, Artés d'Asson) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Arthéziens'' or ''Arthéziennes''
Geography
Arth ...
,
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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, at the age of 65.
Works
* ''La Civilisation des Incas''. Famot, 1976.
* ''Les Seigneurs de la guerre'' (with
Dominique Venner
Dominique Venner (; 16 April 1935 – 21 May 2013) was a French historian, journalist and essayist. Venner was a member of the Organisation armée secrète and later became a European nationalist, founding '' Europe-Action'', before w ...
, André Brissaud and
Jean Mabire
Jean Mabire (8 February 1927—29 March 2006) was a French journalist and essayist. A neo-pagan and nordicist, Mabire is known for the regionalist and euronationalist ideas that he developed in both ''Europe-Action'' and GRECE, as well as his c ...
). Famot, 1978.
* ''Les Grandes découvertes archéologiques du
XXe siècle''. Famot, 1979.
* ''Affaire Touvier : la contre-enquête''. Ed. du Camelot, 1996.
* ''La Cagoule : 1936-1937'',. Ed. de la Librairie Nationale, 2000.
* ''La France sous les bombes américaines : 1942-1945''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2001.
* ''L'Extrême droite dans la Résistance'', 2 vol.. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2000.
* ''La Gauche pétainiste''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2001.
* ''Le Pacte germano-sioniste, 7 août 1933''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2001.
* ''Ces Juifs de France qui ont collaboré''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2002.
* ''La Milice : Lyon, 1943-1944''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2002.
* ''Ledesma Ramos et la Phalange espagnole : 1931-1936''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2002.
* ''Georges Valois : de l'anarcho-syndicalisme au fascisme''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2003.
* ''La Nostalgie de l'Empire : une relecture de l'histoire napoléonienne''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2004.
* ''Les Socialistes dans la Collaboration : de Jaurès à Hitler''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2006.
* ''Doriot''. Pardès, 2008.
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1944 births
2010 deaths
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