Pierre Bousquet
Pierre Bousquet (1919–1991) was a French journalist and far-right politician. A former Rottenführer in the Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne, Bousquet was a founding member of the National Front in 1972 and became its first treasurer.
Biography
Pierre Bousquet was born in November 1919 in Tours.[1] He became a member of the youth movement of the Parti Franciste in 1936.[2][3] On 25 August 1943, he joined the Waffen-SS in Alsace and ended up with the rank of Rottenführer (Caporal) in the Division Charlemagne.[2][4]
After the Fall of France in August 1944, he managed to convince the American troops that he had been a forced member of the Service du travail obligatoire, and was designated to be in charge of organizing the arrest and the return to France of former collaborationists. Back to Paris in 1946, he tried with a group of former Waffen-SS to enter anti-communist movements in order to maneuver them.[5] Bousquet then became an activist in the neo-fascist movement Jeune Nation led by Pierre Sidos in the late 1950s.[6]
A member of the euro-nationalist magazine Europe-Action, he replaced Dominique Venner as the president of the European Rally for Liberty following its failure in the 1967 legislative election, along with another former Waffen-SS named Pierre Clémenti.[7] This takeover, along with the relations maintained with the German neo-Nazi NPD and seminars held on Mein Kampf, triggered a wave of resignations.[8] In March 1968, an extraordinary session of the REL's nation council excluded Bousquet and Venner from the movement.[9]
Bousquet created the nationalist magazine Militant with Pierre Pauty in December 1967.[10][6] He participated in the founding of the National Front (FN) in 1972 and was its first treasurer. Bousquet left the party at the end of the 1980s, dismissing the FN as pro-Zionist since the assassination of François Duprat in 1978.[5][6]
He died in 1991. FN members Roger Holeindre and Roland Gaucher were present at his funeral.[11]
References
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- ^ Aspects de l'anticommunisme (in French). L'Âge d'Homme. 2001-02-10. pp. 139, 142. ISBN 9782825114858.
- ^ Leclercq, Jacques (2015-05-15). (Nos) Néo-nazis et ultras-droites (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. p. 54. ISBN 9782336381848.
- ^ Lebourg, Nicolas. "Front national : François Brigneau, un mort encombrant". L'Obs.