Jean-Claude Valla (16 May 1944 – 25 February 2010) was a French journalist and a prominent figure of the

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Biography

Early life

Jean-Claude Valla was born on 16 May 1944 in

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. Between 1962 and 1965, he was the leader the

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(FEN) branch in Lyon, serving also in two redaction committees: in the FEN magazine ''Cahiers Universitaires'', and in ''

Europe-Action ''Europe-Action'' was a far-right white nationalist and euro-nationalist magazine and movement, founded by Dominique Venner in 1963 and active until 1966. Distancing itself from pre-WWII fascist ideas such as anti-intellectualism, anti-parliame ...

'', a

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review founded in 1963 by

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GRECE

Valla was a founding member of

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, an

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think tank set up in January 1968. He also participated in the founding of the scouting organization

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in 1973. After the launch of GRECE magazine ''

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'' in September 1973, Valla became its redactor-in-chief. Between 1974 and 1978, he also served as the secretary general of GRECE. Valla supported the pseudoscientific thesis of the colonization of

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by the

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in his book ''La Civilisation des Incas'', published in 1976. He worked as a managing director at the ''Figaro Magazine'' until 1979, before leaving GRECE in 1986.

Later life and death

In the 1990s, he was appointed editorial director of the far-right weekly newspaper ''

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''. Responding to an article by Georges Charbonneau published in GRECE bulletin and declaring that the organization did not support Holocaust deniers, Valla wrote in 1991 that he denied GRECE's legitimacy to speak for all the

movement. Valla also stood up for Holocaust denier

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in an issue of ''Figaro-Magazine'', and for the editor of

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thesis Jean Plantin in the Nouvelle Droite magazine ''

'' in 2002. He died on 25 February 2010 in

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, at the age of 65.

Works

* ''La Civilisation des Incas''. Famot, 1976. * ''Les Seigneurs de la guerre'' (with

, André Brissaud and

Jean Mabire Jean Mabire (8 February 1927—29 March 2006) was a French journalist and essayist, author of over a hundred published works. A neo-pagan and nordicist, Mabire is known for the regionalist and euronationalist ideas that he developed in both ''Eu ...

). Famot, 1978. * ''Les Grandes découvertes archéologiques du XX^e siècle''. Famot, 1979. * ''Affaire Touvier : la contre-enquête''. Ed. du Camelot, 1996. * ''La Cagoule : 1936-1937'',. Ed. de la Librairie Nationale, 2000. * ''La France sous les bombes américaines : 1942-1945''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2001. * ''L'Extrême droite dans la Résistance'', 2 vol.. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2000. * ''La Gauche pétainiste''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2001. * ''Le Pacte germano-sioniste, 7 août 1933''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2001. * ''Ces Juifs de France qui ont collaboré''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2002. * ''La Milice : Lyon, 1943-1944''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2002. * ''Ledesma Ramos et la Phalange espagnole : 1931-1936''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2002. * ''Georges Valois : de l'anarcho-syndicalisme au fascisme''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2003. * ''La Nostalgie de l'Empire : une relecture de l'histoire napoléonienne''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2004. * ''Les Socialistes dans la Collaboration : de Jaurès à Hitler''. Ed. de la Librairie nationale, 2006. * ''Doriot''. Pardès, 2008.

References

Bibliography

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