Jacques Ploncard (; 13 March 1910 – 20 February 2005), also called "Jacques Ploncard d'Assac" (), was a
French writer and
journalist
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Roles
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and a
political
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activist – he was, among other things, a member of the
Parti Populaire Français
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Formation and early y ...
. Following the fall of the
Vichy regime
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, he escaped to
Portugal
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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
PIDE
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. After the April 1974
Carnation Revolution
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, he returned to France and collaborated on ''
Présent'', a newspaper which maintained loose links with
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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's
National Front. Jacques Ploncard also wrote ''Doctrines of
Nationalism
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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
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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