Dominique Venner

Biography

Years of militancy

Wire of a member of the French Popular party (PF), member of the movement Young Nation, it takes part in the setting with bag of the seat of the French Communist party (PCF) the November 7th 1956 following the Insurrection of Budapest, takes part in the foundation of the nationalist Parti with Pierre Sidos, and spends 18 months to the district of the policies of the Prison of Health because of its participation in the organization of OAS. At does its coming out of prison with the autumn 1962, it write a proclamation entitled For a positive criticism , - sometimes compared with the That to make? of Lénine and “a long time regarded as a text founder by a whole fraction of the ultra-right-hand side” -, in which, fascinating act of the failure of the putsch of April 1961 and the existing gap between “nationals” and “nationalists”, he recommends the creation of a revolutionary nationalist organization, “intended for the combat”, “one, monolithic and hierarchical”, “formed by the grouping of all the militants won over to nationalism, devoted and disciplined”. In January 1963, it creates and directs with Alain de Benoist the newspaper and the movement Europe-Action which gathers, around at the same time European and nationalist convictions, of the militants of the Fédération of the nationalist students, of the survivors of OAS, former intellectuals collaborationnists like Lucien Rebatet and of many militant young people. It then belonged to the founders of the GREECE. The Saint-Just Editions of which he is owner become the firm about it. It ceased any political activity since 1970.

The career of writer

Become writer, it specialized in the history; it also published several books on the weapons and the Chasse. Among its principal works: Baltikum (1974), the White Sun of overcome the (1975), the Heart rebels (1994), critical Histoire of Resistance (1995), Gettysburg (1995), the White and the Reds (1997), Histoire of Collaboration (2000), Histoire of terrorism (2002). Its Histoire of the Red Army obtained the Broquette-Gonin Price of history of the French Academy in 1981.

Among his last works, one will note in particular Histoire and tradition of Europeans (2002), work in which the author defines what, according to him, would constitute the bases of the European culture and the new concept of tradition.

After having been director of the drafting of the review Investigation into the history , disappeared at the end from the Years 1990, it founds in 2002 and directs the drafting of two-monthly the the New Review of History , renamed temporarily the NRH in 2006, where intervene of the personalities as various as Bernard Lugan, Jean Tulard, Aymeric Chauprade, Alain Decaux, François-Georges Dreyfus or Jacqueline de Romilly. It coanime quasi systematically the Free Newspaper of Bernard Lugan on Radio Courtesy (18 H, every 4 Thursdays), emission which is generally based on the last delivery of the NRH .

Reception criticizes its historical works

According to the political economist Gwendal Châton, the activity of historian of Dominique Venner “is integrated in a skilful strategy of conquest of a new respectability: that of the intellectual” where “it is about instrumentaliser the history to put it at the service of the cultural combat”; “the “traditionism”, the recourse to the history and the European tradition, is thus only one veil rhetoric masking an ideological continuity” and Dominique Venner, via his historical reviews would be devoted to “handling of the history, operated by the use of various strategies rhetorics”.

Works

Guide of the dispute: men, facts, the events , Robert Laffont, Paris, 1968,256 p.
They are insane, these gauchists! Thoughts. Chosen and sometimes commented by Dominique Venner , ED. modern Thought, Paris, 1970,251 p.
Guide of the policy , Balland, Paris, 1972,447 p. + 12 p.
Guns and revolvers , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 1, Paris, 1972,326 p.
Crack corpses of last the (to dir.), Balland, Paris, 1972,391 p. - Joins together: Knights teutonic , by Jean-Jacques Mourreau, Janissaries , by Philippe Conrad, Musketeers , by Arnaud Jacomet, Pomegranates of the Guard , by Jean Piverd, and Juniors , by Claude Jacquemart.
Mr Colt , Balland, coll. A Man, a weapon , Paris, 1972,242 p. + 40 p.
Rifles and shotguns , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 2, Paris, 1973,310 p.
Baltikum: in Reich of the defeat, the combat of the body-francs, 1918-1923 , Robert Laffont, coll. The History which we live , Paris, 1974,365 p. + 16 p.
individual Weapons of combat , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 3, Paris, 1974,310 p.
the White Sun of overcome: the epopee Southerner and the American Civil War, 1607-1865 , the Roundtable, Paris, 1975,300 p.
Weapons of Resistance , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 4, Paris, 1976,330 p.
, Weapons of cavalry (to dir.), Argout, Paris, 1977,144 p. Out of the ordinary n° 4 of the review Gazette of the weapons
Knives of IIIe Reich , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 5, Paris, 1977,298 p.
Westerling: guerilla story , Hatchet, coll. The Book of the adventurers , Paris, 1977,319 p.
American Weapons , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 6, Paris, 1978,309 p.
German Body-francs of the Baltic: birth of the Nazism , the Book of pocket, n° 5136, Paris, 1978,508 p.
Dominique Venner, Thomas Schreiber and Jerome Brisset, Great enigmas of our time , Famot, Geneva, 1978,248 p. + 24 p.
French Firearms , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 7, Paris, 1979,334 p.
Russian and Soviet Weapons , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 8, Paris, 1980,276 p.
the Large book of the weapons , Jacques Grancher, Paris, 1980,79 p.
History of the Red Army. Volume 1: The Revolution and the civil war: 1917-1924 , Plon, Paris, 1981,301 p. + 16 p.
Mauser 96 , ED. cheetah, Paris, 1982,94 p.
Scraping-knives and knives , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 9, Paris, 1983,318 p.
History of the hunting weapons , Jacques Grancher, Paris, 1984,219 p. + 16 p. * the Guide of the adventure , Pygmalion, Paris, 1986, nonknown
Knives: sabers and swords , ED. modern Thought and Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 10, Paris, 1986,317 p.
Handguns: from 1850 with our days, Larousse, Paris, 1988,198 p.
Thirteen exemplary murders: political terror and crimes at the XXe century , Plon, Paris, 1988,299 p.
the Assassin of the president Kennedy , Perrin, coll. Truths and legends , Paris, 1989,196 p. + 8 p.
the Hunting weapon today , Jacques Grancher, coll. The Book of the weapons n° 11, Paris, 1990,350 p.
Art schools of hunting , Jacques Grancher, coll. Passions , Paris, 1992,241 p. erroneous
the Hunting knife , Crepin-Leblond, coll. Saga of the weapons and the armament , Paris, 1992,134 p.
the Heart rebels , the Humanities, Paris, 1994,201 p.
Gettysburg , ED. rock, Monaco and Paris, 1995,321 p.
Histoire criticizes Resistance , Pygmalion, red and white Collection, Paris, 1995,500 p.
the weapons which made the history. Volume 1 , Crepin-Leblond, coll. Saga of the weapons and the armament , Montrouge, 1996,174 p.
American Revolvers and guns: universe of the weapons (with the collaboration of Philippe Fossat and Rudy Holst), Solar, coll. Universe of the weapons , 1996,141 p.
History of a German Fascism: body-francs of Baltikum and the revolution (subtitle of Reich of the defeat at the night of the long knives 1918-1934 ), Pygmalion, red and white Collection, Paris, 1996,380 p. + 16 p.
White and Reds: history of the Russian civil war, 1917-1921 , Pygmalion, red and white Collection, Paris, 1997,396 p. + 16 p.
Encyclopedia of the hunting weapons: rifles, rifles, optics, ammunition , Maloine, Paris, 1997,444 p.
Dictionary in love with hunting , Plon, coll. Dictionary in love , Paris, 2000,586 p.
History of Collaboration (followed dictionaries of the actors, parties and newspapers), Pygmalion, Paris, 2000,766 p.
History of terrorism , Pygmalion and Gerard Watelet, Paris, 2002,248 p.
History and tradition of Europeans: 30.000 years of identity , ED. rock, Monaco and Paris, 2002,273 p.
De Gaulle: size and nothing: test , ED. rock, Monaco and Paris, 2004,304 p.
the Century of 1914. Utopias, wars and revolutions in Europe at the 20th century , Pygmalion, Paris, 2006,408 p.

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