Club de l'Horloge
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The Club de l'Horloge (literally The Clock Club) is a French conservative association founded in 1974. The club centers itself around the values of "liberalism, nationalism and democracy." Its president is Henry de Lesquen.
[edit] History
Club de l'Horloge was founded by Henry de Lesquen, Jean-Yves Le Gallou and GRECE member Yvan Blot. Later on, a schism would divide the Club de l'Horloge and GRECE (mainly because the Club de l'Horloge was too 'liberal' according to Alain de Benoist), although both remained staunchly anti-egalitarian. The Club de l'Horloge is supportive of uniting the French conservative forces in one political movement.
[edit] Lysenko prize
Since 1990, the Club de l'Horloge awards an annual "prize," le prix Lyssenko, to an author or person who "has contributed the most to scientific and historical misinformation, using ideological methods and arguments." Daniel Cohn-Bendit won the prize in 2002 "for his exceptional contribution to the euro campaign," the late John Kenneth Galbraith in 1994 for "his defense of the minimum wage and socialist fight against unemployment." The Club de l'Horloge attributes the prize to Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet biologist under Stalin, whose Lysenkoism caused the literal death of many Soviet scientists.
