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 OAS, to the

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. After the April 1974

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, he returned to France and collaborated on '' Présent'', 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 Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she ...

and her Mandarins''), 1955

References

* https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11920060/jacques_ploncard_d_assac/ * http://www.chire.fr/A-175286-jacques-ploncard-d-assac-1910-2005.aspx {{DEFAULTSORT:Ploncard, Jacques 1910 births 2005 deaths French expatriates in Portugal People from Chalon-sur-Saône French Popular Party politicians People convicted of indignité nationale 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 Nazi fugitives Nazis sentenced to death in absentia by France