Jean Raspail

Jean Raspail ( born July 5, 1925 in Chemillé -sur -Dême, Indre -et -Loire ) is a French writer.

Life and work

He came from an upper class family. His father Octave Raspail was also Chairman of the Great Mill of Corbeil Corbeil -Essonnes in a suburb of Paris and Director General of Mines de la Sarre. His mother was Marguerite Chaix.

His unconventional utopias, characterized by its traditional Catholicism, were already in the 1950s as controversial. He has written several science fiction, in which fail the ideologies of communism and liberalism and a Catholic monarchy is rebuilt. His works also deal with scenarios of immigration, such as in camp of the saints of 1973, where the landing contributes one million Indians from the subclass to the French Mediterranean coast to the downfall of Western civilization. In the novel, Sire is a French king in February 1999 in Reims crowned again, it is the eighteen year-old Philippe Pharamond de Bourbon, a direct descendant of the last French king.

Raspail conducted between 1950 and 1970 numerous trips and expeditions. He lives in Neuilly -sur -Seine.

Activities and memberships

• Consul General of Patagonia
• Member of the Société des Français Explorateurs

Awards and honors

Works

German translations

• Miyamoto and the honorable stranger, Stuttgart 1960
• They were the first, Munich 1988
• The camp of the saints, Tübingen 1985
• Sire, Bonn 2005
• Seven riders left the city (novel), Schnellroda 2013

German literature

• Georg Alois Oblinger: The conservative utopias of Jean Raspail. In: Vobiscum (June 2006), pp. 46-47.