François d'Orcival

François d'Orcival is a French conservative intellectual. He is the editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles and sits on the Board of Directors of the publisher Valmonde.^[1][2]

Biography

As a young man, he was a leader in Jeune Nation.^[1] In 1960, he was one of the founding members of the Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (FEN).^[1] He supported the Organisation de l'armée secrète and was arrested in 1962, when he was jailed for four weeks .^[1] He was editor-in-chief of the FEN magazine, Les Cahiers universitaires, and started writing for Le Spectacle du Monde, whose editor was Raymond Bourgine.^[1] He also wrote for Défense de l’Occident and Europe Action, edited by Dominique Venner and Alain de Benoist.^[1] He later joined the Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne, but left it in 1976.^[1][3] In 1977-1978, he wrote for Le Figaro, then edited by Louis Pauwels.^[1] He later became the editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles.^[1][4]

In 2004, he was elected President of the Fédération Nationale de la Presse Française (FNPF).^[1] On June 23, 2008, he was inducted into the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, following the death of Henri Amouroux.^[5] He is a socially conservative Catholic.^[4]

Bibliography

• Le Courage est leur patrie, avec Fabrice Laroche (1965, with Alain de Benoist)
• Rhodésie, pays des lions fidèles (1966, with Fabrice Laroche)
• Le Danube était noir - la cause de la Slovaquie indépendante (1968)
• Les Marines : scènes de la vie et des combats du corps des Marines des États-Unis (1971)
• Histoire de la Gestapo (1973, with Fabrice Laroche, Jean Mabire and André Brissaud)
• Les Marines à Khé Sanh (1968, with Jacques-François de Chaunac)
• Le Roman de l'Elysée (2007)
• L'Elysée fantôme : Les années noires (2011)

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