2023-12-26 21:54:42
Patrick Buisson, in 2012 in Paris. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP
At the moment when, finally, the media-political climate began to take the form it desired, the essayist and journalist from Maurras Patrick Buisson passed away, Tuesday December 26 in Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée), at the age 74. Since his history studies at university, he has been involved in all the adventures of the French extreme right, contributing to the permeation of its ideas in society and working for its extreme and republican “union of the rights”. Editor, newspaper editor, television columnist and poll specialist, he accompanied several electoral adventures in parallel.
Success came in 2007 through Nicolas Sarkozy, elected to the Elysée on a program with identity overtones. Until then known only to political circles, his tall lean silhouette and his fine frames never disappeared from the public domain, Patrick Buisson becoming the man of the secret recordings of the Sarkozy presidency, then that of the Elysée polls, two cases in which he was convicted in 2014 and 2022.
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In the 1950s in Paris, on the table of the Buisson family, the magazines which forged their political conscience were piled up. Monarchist, Maurrassian, anti-communist, supporter of French Algeria. To his own range, he will add the rejection of intermediate bodies, economic liberalism and the importance of tradition against postmodern individualism.
Far-right inspirations
Patrick Buisson believes that ideas must be expressed loud and clear, all the better if they transgress – a conviction that will accompany him throughout his life. From middle school, in 1962 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), he braved a minute of silence decided by the government in tribute to six academy inspectors executed by the Organization of the Secret Army (OAS). ). He was quickly spotted by General Intelligence for his far-right activism, targeted for his proximity to the violent Western movement.
At the University of Nanterre, in the turmoil preceding May 68, he opposed Daniel Cohn-Bendit by taking the vice-presidency of the National Federation of Students of France. There he met two of his inspirations, the historian Raoul Girardet, specialist in nationalism, former resistance fighter and supporter of the OAS, and Alain Renault, leader of the neo-fascist movement Ordre Nouveau, precursor of the National Front.
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Patrick Buisson will no longer enjoy activism and prefers to draw inspiration from the Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci to wrest “cultural and ideological hegemony” from the left. In Itemthe first review he edited in 1976, he reveals his passion for scholarly words and the nature of his fight for the half-century to come: “Abandon the relatively stable plane of ideas and doctrines to gain that, infinitely more moving, of sensitivities and temperaments, behaviors and attitudes, mythologies and the collective legend. »
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