Maurice Rollet (30 January 1933 – 21 January 2014) was a French poet, activist and medical doctor. He sometimes used the pseudonym ''François Le Cap''.

Biography

In the 1960s, he was involved as a far right-wing activist with

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, ''

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'', and supported the

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, for which he was imprisoned. In 1968 he was one of the co-founders 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 ...

'' think thank

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and became its first president. According to Rollet, the organization was founded at his birthday party in

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on 29 January 1968, although this account has been contested. In 1973 he co-founded the

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scouting organization Europe-Jeunesse alongside

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and

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. Unlike some ''Nouvelle Droite'' activists who only adopted paganism as an intellectual position, Rollet saw it as a true way of life. He described what he called his "native faith" (french: foi native) as an individual approach based on rootedness, harmony with the cosmos, the constant search for physical and moral aesthetics, tolerance, and respect for the "Other". Rollet held contact with the

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. His poetic works are marked by neopaganism. Some of his lyrics have been set to music by the singer Docteur Merlin, and are featured on the album ''Soleil de Pierre''. Rollet acted in the movies '' The Rebel'' (1980) and '' La Flambeuse'' (1981). He died on 21 January 2014.

Bibliography

* Des Rimes et des Runes (in collaboration with Perig Kerys), Pyrene, 1980 * Le Mai 68 de la Nouvelle Droite (anthology), Labyrinthe, 1998 *

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(ed.), Liber Amicorum Alain de Benoist, Les Amis d'Alain de Benoist, 2004 * Rencontre avec Robert Dun (anthology), Les Amis de la Culture Européenne, 2006 * Balades au cœur de l'Europe païenne (anthology), Les Éditions de la forêt, 2002.

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