Maurice Rollet (30 January 1933 – 21 January 2014) was a French poet, activist and medical doctor.[1] He sometimes used the pseudonym François Le Cap.
Biography
In the 1960s, he was involved as a far right-wing activist with Jeune Nation, Europe-Action, and supported the OAS, for which he was imprisoned. In 1968 he was one of the co-founders of the Nouvelle Droite think tank GRECE and became its first president.[2] According to Rollet, the organization was founded at his birthday party in Marseille on 29 January 1968, although this account has been contested.[3]
In 1973 he co-founded the neopagan scouting organization Europe-Jeunesse alongside Jean-Claude Valla and Jean Mabire.[4] Unlike some Nouvelle Droite activists who only adopted paganism as an intellectual position, Rollet saw it as a true way of life. He described what he called his "native faith" (French: foi native) as an individual approach based on rootedness, harmony with the cosmos, the constant search for physical and moral aesthetics, tolerance, and respect for the "Other".[1] Rollet held contact with the World Congress of Ethnic Religions based in Vilnius.[5]
His poetic works are marked by neopaganism. Some of his lyrics have been set to music by the singer Docteur Merlin, and are featured on the album Soleil de Pierre.[1] Rollet acted in the movies The Rebel (1980) and La Flambeuse (1981).[6]
Camus, Jean-Yves; Lebourg, Nicolas (2017). Far-Right Politics in Europe. Translated by Todd, Jane Marie. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN9780674971530.
