Pierre Vial (born 25 December 1942) is an academic medievalist tied to the

Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 The Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 (), also referred to as Lyon 3, is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France. It is named after the French Resistance fighter Jean Moulin and specialises in Law, Politics, Philosophy, Management and l ...

. A

Nouvelle Droite The ''Nouvelle Droite'' (, ), sometimes shortened to the initialism ND, is a far-right politics, far-right political movement which emerged in France during the late 1960s. The ''Nouvelle Droite'' is the origin of the wider European New Right ( ...

leader, he is the founder of the

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

neopagan Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Despite some common simila ...

association

Terre et Peuple Terre et Peuple (English: "Land and People"; abbreviated T&P or TP) is a Far-right politics, far-right and Modern Paganism, neo-pagan cultural association in France founded by Pierre Vial and launched in 1995. Its positions are close to the Identi ...

Biography

Pierre Vial was born on 25 December 1942. He was in his youth a contributor in ''Cahiers universitaires'', the magazine of the

Federation of Nationalist Students The Federation of Nationalist Students (', FEN) was a French far-right student society active between 1960 and 1967, founded by François d'Orcival and others, soon joined by Alain de Benoist as a lead journalist. Created by former students of th ...

. He co-founded the

think tank

GRECE The Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne ("Research and Study Group for European Civilization"), better known as GRECE, is a French ethnonationalist think tank founded in 1968 to promote the ideas of the Nouvell ...

in 1968, serving as its secretary general from 1978 to 1984. Vial promoted a

stance in the vein of Marc "Saint-Loup" Augier. Vial joined the Front National (FN) in 1988. The same year, he obtained a teaching position at

. He soon reached the leadership ranks of the FN, serving as a member of the Institute of Formation of the party. However, Vial complained in both GRECE and the FN of a lack of focus on the ethnic dimension of identity, and he eventually decided to establish his own movement

in 1994, launched publicly in 1995. In a public declaration delivered at a Terre et Peuple meeting in May 2000, Vial lamented the "ethnic colonization" of France by non-European immigrant communities with a different "biological infrastructure". The "true cultural revolution", Vial ventured, was "the ethnic revolution, the revolution of identity".

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