Michel Marmin (born 18 November 1943) is a French journalist and film critic.

Biography

Born 18 November 1943, Michel Marmin was a member of the non-religious scouting association Éclaireurs de France in the 1950s. He attended the

Institut des hautes études cinématographiques L'Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC; the "Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies") is a French film school, founded during World War II under the leadership of Marcel L'Herbier who was its president from 1944 to 1969. ...

. Marmin is aligned with the neopagan faction of the

French New Right 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). Var ...

. In 1971, he was recruited by media entrepreneur

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and began to work as a cinema critic for '' Valeurs Actuelles'' (1972–1978). Upon the public launch 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 ...

's magazine '' Éléments'' in September 1973, Marmin became its first president, followed by

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in 1983. He also served as the deputy secretary general of GRECE, in charge of press relations. In September 1976, he co-founded the publishing house Copernic. Marmin then worked for ''

Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of r ...

'' between 1978 and 1980, and as the redactor-in-chief of the encyclopedia branch of . Between 1991 and 1992, he served as the president of GRECE. He is the co-scenarist of the films '' Pierre and Djemila'' (1987) and ' (2000), which led to controversies in the media due to his far-right involvement. In 2012–2013, Marmin was among the sponsors of TV Libertés, a far-right web TV.

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