Remembering Dominique Venner:
April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013

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It was four years ago today that French historian and European patriot Dominique Venner ended his life with a bullet on the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Venner wished to draw attention to the demographic decline of European man and to indicate what we must be prepared to give to save our people: everything. But his death will be in vain unless it is remembered. So take this day to remember Dominique Venner: his life, his work, and his sacrifice.

Venner’s Last Words:

• “The Reasons for a Voluntary Death” (Translations: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish))
• “The May 26 Protests and Heidegger” (French original; translations: Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Tributes to Venner:

• Alain de Benoist, “Tribute to Dominique Venner” (Translations: Czech, Greek)
• Guillaume Faye, Interview on Dominique Venner (Spanish translation here)
• Guillaume Faye, “Tribute to Dominique Venner” (Translations: Czech, Greek, Spanish)
• Greg Johnson, “Suicide in the Cathedral: The Death of Dominique Venner“
• Juan Pablo Vitali, “To Dominique Venner“

Venner’s Writings at Counter-Currents:

• “L’Action française 2000 Interviews Dominique Venner“
• “Are Marriage and Children Consumer Goods?“
• “Can History Address the Problems of the Future?“
• “Christmas: Beauty in Life“
• Christopher Gérard Interviews Dominique Venner
• “Does Identity Depend on Sovereignty?“
• “Europe and Europeanness” (translations: Finnish, Greek, German, Portuguese)
• “Europe in Dormition“
• “For a Positive Critique,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
• “François Mitterrand and the French Mystery“
• “Homer: The European Bible,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• “The Homeric Triad” (Portuguese translation here)
• “How are Revolutions Born?” (German translation here)
• “‘Indigenous’? How Dare You?” (Translations: Czech, Ukrainian)
• “An Internal Clash of Civilizations“
• “Letter to My Friends on Identity and Sovereignty“
• “Living in Accordance with Our Traditions“
• “Love Nature, Love Life” (Greek translation here)
• “Machiavelli and the Conservative Revolution“
• “Machiavelli the European” (Ukrainian translation here)
• “The Metaphysics of Memory” (Czech translation here)
• “Pétain & De Gaulle: Two Figures of a Tragic Destiny“
• “A Posthumous Revenge“
• “The Rebel: An Interview with Dominique Venner” (Translations: Czech, Portuguese)
• “Secret Aristocracies” (Translations: Czech, Russian)
• “‘They’re All Rotten’“
• “Toward a New Aristocracy” (Translations: Czech, Portuguese)
• “The Unforeseen, The Chinese, and the Favorable Moment“
• “Violence and ‘Soft Commerce,'” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• “The Warrior and the City” (Translations: Portuguese, Spanish)
• “The Yogi and the Commissar“

More About Venner:

• Patrick Le Brun, “2013: A Dark Year Before the Dawn“
• Michael O’Meara, “Another European Destiny: Dominique Venner’s Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen“
• Michael O’Meara, “Arms and Being“
• Michael O’Meara, “A Breviary for the Unvanquished“
• Michael O’Meara, “From Nihilism to Tradition: Dominique Venner’s Histoire et tradition des européennes” (Czech translation here)
• Michael O’Meara, “Foundations of the Twenty-First Century: Dominique Venner’s Le Siècle de 1914“
• Michael O’Meara, “The Shock of History“