Jacques Ploncard d'Assac

Jacques Ploncard (13 March 1910, Chalon-sur-Saône – 20 February 2005), also called "Jacques Ploncard d'Assac", was a French writer and journalist and a far right activist — he was, among other things, a member of the Parti Populaire Français. Following the fall of the Vichy regime, he escaped to Portugal's Estado Novo in 1945, where he counselled Salazar. He introduced Yves Guérin-Sérac, one of the co-founder of the OAS, to the PIDE. After the April 1974 Carnation Revolution, he returned to France and collaborated on Présent, a far right newspaper which maintains loose links with Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Jacques Ploncard also wrote Doctrines of Nationalism.

His son, Philippe Ploncard, was also a member of the National Front.

Selected bibliography

• Pourquoi je suis anti-juif (Why I Am Anti-Jew), 1938
• La Franc-maçonnerie ennemie de l'Europe (Freemasonry, Europe's Enemy), 1943
• Salazar, 1967

Under the pen-name "La Vouldie":

• Mme Simone de Beauvoir et ses mandarins (Madame Simone de Beauvoir and her Mandarins), 1955