Jacques Ploncard d'Assas

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Jacques Ploncard (1910-2005), also called Jacques Ploncard d'Assac, was a French writer and journalist and a far right activist. Following the fall of the Vichy regime, he escaped to Portugal's Estado Novo in 1945, where he counselled Oliveira Salazar. He introduced Yves Guerin Serac, one of the co-founder of the OAS, to the PIDE. Ater the April 1974 Carnation Revolution, he came back to France and collaborated to Present, a far right newspaper which maintains loose links with Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Jacques Ploncard also wrote Doctrines of nationalism.