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[Ancien compagnon de route de la gauche – il fut un temps encarté au Parti socialiste –, Renaud Camus a côtoyé Andy Warhol à New York et Louis Aragon en France. Désormais âgé de 79 ans, cet auteur prolifique (plus de 160 livres publiés) est surtout connu pour avoir développé, ces dernières années, le concept de « grand remplacement », donnant ainsi des arguments aux partisans de la « remigration », notamment à Eric Zemmour. L’enquête très fouillée de Gaspard Dhellemmes et Olivier Faye dresse le portrait glaçant d’un écrivain devenu idéologue. Extraits.]

“The man through whom the plague arrived”, by Gaspard Dhellemmes and Olivier Faye (Flammarion, 256 pages, 20.90 euros).

This March 11, 2023, Renaud Camus finds himself dealing with a dilemma. And, like on daily basis for forty years, he invitations the readers of his newspaper to witness the folds and folds of his intimate deliberations. “Two journalists want to write my biography”he notes. “They are journalists from M, the magazine of the World : therefore it can only be an extremely hostile biography, even hateful, necessarily hateful. »

Almost four years to the day have passed since the Christchurch massacre [attentats islamophobes commis dans cette ville de Nouvelle-Zélande le 15 mars 2019, ayant causé 51 morts et 49 blessés]. Other massacres took place in the name of the fight against the “great replacement”. The intelligence companies in France are apprehensive concerning the rising terrorist menace posed by the ultra-right. A rising development, fueled by the worry of decline and “change of people” which Renaud Camus, author turned ideologue, speaks about. His ideas infused the speeches of sure candidates for the 2022 presidential election, Eric Zemmour within the lead. It can even encourage the brand new Trumpist elites in Washington of their reconquest of energy. (…)

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