Bertrand Renouvin (; born 15 June 1943 in
Paris
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) is a French political figure, who is the founder and president of
French political movement
Nouvelle Action Royaliste.
Family
Renouvin's father,
Jacques Renouvin, was a hero of the
French Resistance
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of
World War II
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. His father was captured and deported to
Mauthausen concentration camp
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, where he died in 1944.
Royalism
The group aims at restoring
monarchism in France
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. On the other hand, Renouvin's political positions have been close to the (centre-)left of the political spectrum, hence his support for
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former First ...
.
Renouvin regularly publishes editorials in "Royalist", the semi-monthly of his movement, in which he professes anti-
liberal doctrines. Very close to the Count of Paris, Renouvin is close to king
Simeon II of
Bulgaria
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and his
souverainism
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is the result of more than thirty years of public life, at the economic and social council and the leadership of his neo-royalist movement.
Elections
Bertrand Renouvin was a candidate in presidential election in 1974, obtaining 0.14% of votes in the first round.
In the
presidential elections 1981 and
1988, he supported François Mitterrand, candidate of
French Socialist Party
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.
At the time of the last presidential elections (2002), Renouvin chose to support the candidature of
, only
souverainist able in Renouvin's view to gather the good will of both left and right for the purpose of regaining
France
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her position in the world. Thus, Renouvin was also member of ''Pôle Républicain'', a committee of different politicians across the spectrum that supported Chevènement's candidature.
Bibliography
* ''Pourquoi combattre ?'', directed by Pierre-Yves Rougeyron,
Leafted ''Pourquoi Combattre ?'' with authors
Cercle Aristote, Éditions Perspectives Libres
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Vision and mathematics
* Perspectivity, the formation of an image in a picture plane of a scene viewed from a fixed point, and its modeling in geometry
** Perspective (graphical), representing the effects of visual persp ...
, Paris, Janvier 2019.
References
External links
Bertrand Renouvin's homepage (in French)
1943 births
Living people
French monarchists
Politicians from Paris
Politicians of the French Fifth Republic
People affiliated with Action Française
Candidates in the 1974 French presidential election
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