2024-01-03 22:51:04
The coffin of Patrick Buisson in front of the Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes church, in Paris, January 3, 2024. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Patrick Buisson liked to film the receptions he organized. Examine the register of the preview of a documentary. Less to satisfy his passion for archiving than to ensure the loyalty of his friends and the extent of his political and media networks.
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Of the hundred people present, Wednesday January 3, at the funeral of the monarchist journalist, who died on December 26 at the age of 74, he would probably have concluded that his political project: the union of the rights had failed. Only the most extreme fringe of the camp that the identitarian wanted to bring together rubbed shoulders in the Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes church, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
A stubborn grudge against the shadow advisor who unknowingly recorded Nicolas Sarkozy? Fear of appearing alongside former figures of the most radical right? The Republicans (LR) have deserted the church pews. Yet the party has never so adopted the antiphons of the Maurassian – fight against immigration and defense of “roots” French. “He saw before many the great dangers that threaten our country”greeted the president of LR, Eric Ciotti, upon the announcement of his death.
Their opponents, on the other hand, did not hesitate to send their main representatives: Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella for the National Rally (RN); Éric Zemmour for Reconquest!. “His ideas made progress in both patriotic movements, but he did not achieve union on a tactical level”, conceded Bruno Gollnisch before the mass following the Dominican rite. For the former vice-president of the National Front (FN now RN), happy to find former “companions”, the assembly was less about the realization of a “union of patriots” that of the “dissolved league recomposition”.
Elders of the New Order
Former leader of the neofascist New Order movement, and among the founders of the FN, Alain Renault did not miss the funeral of his fellow traveler, from their youth under the national-revolutionary banner to the management of lucrative polling companies. No more than Martin Peltier, former editorial director of National Hebdoconvicted in 1996 for “contestation of crime against humanity”. Also seated in the last rows before discreetly disappearing: Pascal Gauchon, another former Ordre Nouveau, formerly in the leadership of the Parti des Forces Nouvelles (PFN), a neofascist-inspired movement and ephemeral competitor of the FN.
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