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

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and a

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activist – he was, among other things, a member of the

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. Following the fall of the

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, he escaped to

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's '' Estado Novo'' in 1945, where he counselled Salazar. He introduced Yves Guérin-Sérac, one of the co-founders of the

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, to the

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. After the April 1974 Carnation Revolution, he returned to France and collaborated on ''

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'', a newspaper which maintained loose links with

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's National Front. Jacques Ploncard also wrote ''Doctrines of

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''.

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 Simone de Beauvoir 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