Club of the Clock

The Club of the Clock is a French association founded in 1974 by Yvan Blot (RPR), Jean-Yves Gallou (UDF) and Henry de Lesquen (MPF), and gathering executives, senior officials, intellectuals, politicians and French academics of right and Extrême right-hand side, which preaches a “union of the right-hand side, while inserting the National front in an alliance of government”.

Ideas developed and defended by the club

The Club of the Clock is defined as a think tank intended to bring ideas to the right French. He preaches a “national-liberal synthesis to make part with the dominant ideology”. It defends “integral economic material liberalism” since 1979 (magazine during the publication of the collective work the Great Taboo: economy and the levelling mirage , ED. Albin Michel, 1980), the Nationalism (for example with Identity of France , ED. Albin Michel, 1985), merits, according to the club, of the Colonization carried out by the western powers until the Years 1960, and of the theories on the natural inequalities between individuals or groups of individuals (in particular with the Policy of alive the , ED. Albin Michel, 1978).

The Club decides for a union of the right-hand side to which the National front for the similarities would belong taking place between them, only from the point of view of the program.

The Club is at the origin of the theorization of the “National preference”, in a collective work published in the editions Albin Michel in February 1985, when its principal leaders and members were still members of the RPR (Bruno Mégret, Yvan Blot, Jean-Claude Bardet, Henry de Lesquen) of the UDF (Jean-Yves Gallou) or of CNI (Yvon Briant).

The Club also pleads for the Démocratie and the République.

Influences of the Club of the Clock

In the philosophical and political field: Joseph de Maistre.
In the economic domain: Friedrich Hayek and Frederic Bastiat.

Between right-hand side of government and National front

Henry de Lesquen supports in 1997 qu ' it exists “an electorate from approximately 15% which awaits something. An electorate more middle-class, less popular, less focused on immigration, more attached to economic freedoms than that of the National front”. Alliance would be however possible only if the National front ceased being a party of dispute fixed on nationalism.

The Club since 1974 wove many bonds on the right. Alain Madelin was one of most assiduous with the conferences and seminars until in 1984. Minister in 1986, it had taken with his cabinet like in charge of the studies and speeches the general secretary with the Club, Michel Leroy. Alain Juppe, as for him, also took part in reflections in common with the Club of the Clock by publishing a work together. Until the end of the Years 1980 at least, it remained near to the right-hand side of government, and especially to the elements on the right of these parties. Thus, in 1989, it presented a common relationship with club 89, box with ideas of RPR. The president of the Club, Henry de Lesquen, in 2002, advised the president of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, on the problems of the Insécurité.

The principal leaders founders, except for Henry de Lesquen, adhered to the National front in the Années 1980: Jean-Claude Bardet, Yvan Blot, Jean-Yves Gallou and Bruno Mégret. But the Club also counts members or sympathizers who are members of the Mouvement for France, to start with his president Henry de Lesquen, or of the National center of independent and country the (Christian Vanneste).

The Club of the Clock was regarded at the end of the Années 1970 as recipient the “New Line” symbolized by the GREECE. Henry de Lesquen however announced of the existence of differences existing between the Club and the “New Line”. The bonds between two associations would have been limited to certain joint members and the Club since rejected paganism dominating in GREECE for preserving positions much more traditional.

In 2006, one counts among the members of the Club of the Clock of the members of the UMP, of the UDF, the National front and the independent ones.

The lawsuit against Elisabeth Roudinesco

The Club in addition assigned in justice the academic and essay writer Elisabeth Roudinesco which had defendant some of his members of “masked anti-semitism”, after having raised in their writings all the similarities with rhetoric of the negationnists, in an article published by the review Modern times . Mrs. Roudinesco gained in first authority (June 2005), then in call (March 2006).

Current leaders

President: Henry de Lesquen

Vice-presidents: Didier Maupas, Georges Berthu, Pierre-Marie Guastavino

General secretary: Bernard Mazin

Deputy:

with animation: Alain Bourdelat

with adhesions: Pierre-Yves Pinchaux

with the communication: Christophe Beaumont

Treasurer: Pierre Milloz

Works published by the Club of the Clock

Ambiguities of social Europe (Les)
Latin America, victim of the state control or capitalism? (It)
Decline of the right (It)
confiscated Democracy (It)
Local democracy, a bet for France (It)
Right-hand side-left: an exceeded cleavage?
Failures and injustices of socialism
School in charge (It)
Municipal elections 2001: to put the course on the right
Great Taboo - economy and the levelling mirage (It)
Identity of France (It)
Identity and growth of the man (It)
Myth of the social skills (It)
Occident without complexes (It)
To think the Antiracism
bureaucratic Danger (It)
Political of alive (It) the
Privatiser the Social security
Which University for France?
What the Nation?
Roots of the future - Tomorrow France (Them)
Reform of the code of nationality (It)
" Refusal of the exclusion" , new expression of the levelling Utopia (It)
To restore Safety
To break with 50 years of socialism - 1936-1986
Socialism against the third world (It)
Socialism and Fascism: the same family?
Socialism and is the original sin (It)
Socialism and religion compatible?
Union of the right-hand side is it possible?
Lives the Property!

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