François d'Orcival
{{short description|French conservative journalist and essayist}}
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| birth_place = Aurignac, Haute-Garonne
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Amaury de Chaunac-Lanzac ({{IPA|fr|amoʁi də ʃonak lɑ̃zak}}; born 11 February 1942), better known as François d'Orcival ({{IPA|fr|fʁɑ̃swa dɔʁsival|}}), is a French conservative journalist and essayist. He is the president of the editorial committee at Valeurs Actuelles and sits on the board of directors of the publisher Valmonde.Pascal Dillane, [http://www.acrimed.org/article1862.html Un ancien dirigeant de l’extrême droite représente la presse française], ACRIMED, February 2005{{Cite web |url=http://www.valeursactuelles.com/presentation-redaction.html |title=Valeurs Actuelles |access-date=2012-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231143936/http://www.valeursactuelles.com/presentation-redaction.html |archive-date=2010-12-31 |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Amaury de Chaunac-Lanzac was born on 11 February 1942 in Aurignac, Haute-Garonne.{{Cite web|title=François d'Orcival-La lâcheté, et à la mauvaise conscience, cett|url=http://evene.lefigaro.fr/citation/lachete-mauvaise-conscience-maladie-savante-3333800.php|access-date=2020-06-25|website=Evene|language=fr}} Aged 18, he joined the neo-fascist movement Jeune Nation.{{Cite web|title=François d'Orcival|url=http://evene.lefigaro.fr/celebre/biographie/francois-d-orcival-27980.php|access-date=2020-06-25|website=Evene|language=fr}} Early in his political involvement, he took the pseudonym François d'Orcival.{{Cite book|last=Shields|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7eGJAgAAQBAJ|title=The Extreme Right in France: From Pétain to Le Pen|date=2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-86111-8|pages=137|language=en}} In 1960, he was one of the founding members of the Fédération des étudiants nationalistes (FEN). He supported the Organisation armée secrète and was arrested in 1962, then jailed for four weeks. D'Orcival was editor-in-chief of the FEN magazine, Les Cahiers universitaires, from 1961 to 1967. Between 1963 and 1966, he also wrote for the far-right magazines Défense de l’Occident, led by Maurice Bardèche, and Europe-Action, edited by Dominique Venner and Alain de Benoist.
In July 1966, d'Orcival joined Valeurs Actuelles, then Le Spectacle du Monde, both edited by Raymond Bourgine. He also wrote for Le Nouveau Journal. Meanwhile, he was involved in the creation of the Nationalist Movement of Progress (MNP). d'Orcival joined Valeurs Actuelles again in 1968, then co-founded with GRECE members the magazine Nouvelle École in 1970. d'Orcival remained a member of Nouvelle École
In 1998, he was elected president of the Syndicat Professionnel de la Presse Magazine et d'Opinion (SPPMO), an organization which includes – besides Valeurs Actuelles – Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Canard enchaîné, Télérama or L’Humanité hebdo. In 2004, he was elected president of the Fédération Nationale de la Presse Française (FNPF). From 2006, d'Orcival has also worked as an editorialist at Le Figaro Magazine.
On June 23, 2008, d'Orcival was inducted into the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, following the death of Henri Amouroux.[http://www.asmp.fr/fiches_academiciens/ORCIVAL.htm Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques]
Bibliography
- Le Courage est leur patrie (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)
- Le nouveau roman de l'Élysée (2012)
- Histoires de l'Élysée (2017)
References
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