Pierre Vial | |
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.png) Pierre Vial in 2012. | |
| Born | (1942-12-25)25 December 1942 (age 82) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Medievalist, activist |
Pierre Vial (born 25 December 1942) is an academic medievalist tied to theJean Moulin University Lyon 3. ANouvelle Droite leader, he is the founder of thefar-right,neopagan associationTerre et Peuple.
Pierre Vial was born on 25 December 1942.[1] He was in his youth a contributor inCahiers universitaires, the magazine of theFederation of Nationalist Students.[2]
He co-founded theNouvelle Droite think tankGRECE in 1968, serving as its secretary general from 1978 to 1984. Vial promoted aneopagan stance in the vein ofMarc "Saint-Loup" Augier.[3]
Vial joined theFront National (FN) in 1988. The same year, he obtained a teaching position atJean Moulin University Lyon 3.[4] He soon reached the leadership ranks of the FN,[3] serving as a member of the Institute of Formation of the party.[5] 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 movementTerre et Peuple in 1994, launched publicly in 1995.[3][6]
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".[7]
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