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Today is Dominique Venner’s eighty-ninth birthday, and this year is the eleventh anniversary of Dominique Venner’s dramatic suicide at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, which he carried out as a protest against the degradation of the traditional family’s central importance as well as the demographic replacement of European man, and to indicate what we must be prepared to give to save our people: everything. On that day, Counter-Currents published English translations of Venner’s last post to his website, “The May 26 Protests and Heidegger,” as well as his suicide note, “The Reasons for a Voluntary Death.“

Venner dedicated his life to fighting for the cause of the Right. He fought as a French soldier in the Algerian War in his youth, and then spent the rest of his life as a historian, philosopher, and European patriot. Over the years, Counter-Currents has published many translations of Venner’s work, as well as essays about him, which are listed below.

Venner’s 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:

• Jean-Yves Camus, “Dominique Venner & Death.”
• 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?.”
• “Céline: Literary Giant & Racial Nationalist.”
• “Christmas: Beauty in Life” (Spanish translation here)
• Christopher Gérard Interviews Dominique Venner
• “Does Identity Depend on Sovereignty?.”
• “The Épuration: An Intellectual & Political Purge.”
• “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
• “The Franco-French & European Civil Wars.”
• “The Franco-German Rivalry: A Recent Conflict.”
• “François Mitterrand and the French Mystery.”
• “Franco’s Failure.”
• “Hitler’s Failure.”
• “Homer: The European Bible,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (German translation here)
• “The Homeric Triad” (German translation here, Portuguese translation here)
• “How are Revolutions Born?” (German translation here)
• “Implications of the Fall of Communism in Europe: A Visionary Reflection.”
• “‘Indigenous’? How Dare You?” (Translations: Czech, Ukrainian)
• “An Internal Clash of Civilizations.”
• “King Otto’s Trial.”
• “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)
• “Nationalism & Europeanism” (Spanish translation here)
• “The National Revolution of 1940.”
• “Pétain & De Gaulle: Two Figures of a Tragic Destiny.”
• “A Posthumous Revenge.”
• “The Punishment of the German People.”
• “The Rebel: An Interview with Dominique Venner” (Translations: Czech, Portuguese)
• “Secret Aristocracies” (Translations: Czech, German, Russian)
• “The De-Judaization of France.”
• “‘They’re All Rotten’.”
• “Totalitarianism: A Specious Concept.”
• “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: German, Portuguese, Spanish)
• “The Yogi and the Commissar.”
• “Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death.”

More About Venner:

• Patrick Le Brun, “2013: A Dark Year Before the Dawn.”
• John Morgan, “Which Traditional Britain?“
• 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” (French version here)
• Michael O’Meara, “The Shock of History.”

See also articles tagged Dominique Venner.