The best-known Hungarian conservative author, the greatest contemporary counter-revolutionary thinker, and the most productive Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, Thomas Molnar, was born a hundred years ago this year. Béla Király, who is one of Alain de Benoist’s comrades-in-arms and discussion partners, conducted and translated an interview with him which reveals the two Right-wing thinkers’ parallel careers that lasted for decades. (more…)
Für die Ältesten war Homer “der Anfang, die Mitte und das Ende”. Eine Weltanschauung und sogar eine Philosophie leiten sich implizit aus seinen Gedichten ab. Heraklit hat den kosmischen Sockel mit einer formulierung gut zu ihm zusammengefasst: “Das Universum, das für alle Wesen gleich ist, wurde von keinem Gott oder menschen geschaffen;sondern es war immer, ist und wird ewig lebendiges Feuer sein . . .”(more…)
The French soldier, historian, and European patriot Dominique Venner was born on this day in 1935. He famously ended his life with a bullet on the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on May 21, 2013 to protest the demographic replacement of Europeans. Through both his life’s work and his death, 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.
We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries (more…)
Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here
We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial (more…)
The French soldier, historian, and European patriot Dominique Venner was born on this day in 1935. He famously ended his life with a bullet on the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on May 21, 2013 to protest the demographic replacement of Europeans. Through both his life’s work and his death, 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.
This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013), 101-15.. I have previously reviewed this work at The Occidental Observer.
Liberalism is the ideology of western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism – the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future – falls into place. (more…)
A young Dominique Venner, at a protest against Algerian independence in paratrooper uniform, is on the left.
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The following article was published in French on the Fragments sur les Temps PrésentsWebsite on May 23, 2018 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Dominique Venner‘s public suicide. Jean-Yves Camus is a sociologist who specializes in the Right. It was translated by Jason Rogers.
On May 21, 2013, Dominique Venner put an end to his days by putting a gun in his mouth at Notre Dame de Paris. “Suicide by an opponent of marriage equality,” “suicide of an ex-OAS member”[1] . . . that’s how his death was announced. (more…)
The following is an interview with Alain de Benoist that was published by the Hungarian magazine Mandiner on November 4, 2017. It was translated from the original French.(more…)
The following is the text of a talk that was delivered at the annual conference of the Traditional Britain Group that was held on October 24, 2015. The video is here.
The problem with talking about tradition as applied to our present world, at least within the context of a people or a country with a long history, is determining what, exactly, tradition is, and which tradition to draw upon. (more…)
Traducción por Francisco Albanese; English version here
Nos acercamos a la Navidad (otro nombre para el solsticio de invierno). Asociada al árbol de hojas perennes, la Navidad ha sido celebrada en los países europeos desde tiempos inmemoriales como la gran fiesta que presagia el renacimiento de la naturaleza y la vida después del reposo del invierno. Uno no puede dejar de pensar que Europa, también, algún día emergerá de su actual Dormición, incluso si es más larga que el ciclo de la naturaleza. (more…)
Translated by Greg Johnson; Spanish translation here
We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. (more…)
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. (more…)
We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. (more…)
We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. (more…)
The following is the epilogue to Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 522-26. The title is editorial.
[. . .] Throughout this book, I have sought to place the years of the Occupation and the variegated phenomenon of Collaboration in the wider context of the time, that of the French disaster of 1940 (more…)
Albrecht Dürer, Charlemagne (detail), circa 1512, with German and French escutcheons
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note:
The following is translated from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 151-54. The title is editorial.
In The Birth of Two Peoples, the great medievalist Carlrichard Brühl demonstrated the extent to which the consciousness of a common origin [between Frenchmen and Germans] was still felt at the time of Saint Louis.[1][2]
“Épuration,” literally meaning “purge,” “cleansing,” or “purification,” was the process of killing, imprisoning, ostracizing, or otherwise punishing those deemed to have been traitors by the Gaullist government and the Resistance following the eviction of German forces from France in 1944-45. (more…)
The following is translated from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 160-62, under the heading “Weakening the defeated to better get along with him.” The title is editorial, and refers to German Ambassador to Paris Otto Abetz, who was said to rule like “King Otto” over the French capital and in particular its vibrant cultural scene.
The draft Statute on Jews of October 3, 1940, apparently toughened by the hand of Marshal Pétain.
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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note:
The following extracts are translated from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 118-22. The title is editorial.
Before creating something new, to ensure that the old regime is genuinely laid low, one begins by driving out those who represent a potential counter-revolution, the risk of a lapse backwards. (more…)
This article is drawn from Dominique Venner’s history of the twentieth century, Le Siècle de 1914 (Paris: Pygmalion, 2006), 318-20, under the heading “Les plans de Hitler pour l’Europe soumise.” The title is editorial.
Could the Reich’s new weapons, notably the extraordinary Me 262 fighter-bombers, reverse the trend [of the war]? (more…)
Arturo Reque Meruvia “Kemer”: Alegoría de Franco y la Cruzada (1948-1949)
Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note:
This article is drawn from Dominique Venner’s history of the twentieth century, Le Siècle de 1914 (Paris: Pygmalion, 2006), 281–83, under the heading “Le retournement de l’Église.” The title is editorial. (more…)
The American historian George Mosse has pin-pointed the specious nature of the theory of totalitarianism: it “looks upon the world exclusively from a liberal point of view.” In other words, totalitarianism is a concept elaborated by liberal thought in order to present itself in a favorable light, contrasting itself to its various enemies, all of which are confused together in a single, unholy category, according to the binary opposition of “us and them.”
Důvody k životu i smrti jsou nezřídka totožné. Rozhodně tomu tak bylo v případě Dominique Vennera, jenž svým činem uvedl svůj život a smrt do hlubokého souznění. Dle svých slov se rozhodl zemřít způsobem nejčestnějším za daných okolností – tedy když slova nemůžou popsat ani vyjádřit pocity. Dominique Venner nakonec zemřel tak, jak žil – se stejnou vůlí a jasností. (more…)
It was one year 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. (more…)
Like Greg, I did not have a happy 2013. The hope inspired by the Poitiers Mosque action in November 2012 was followed by a severe repression and infiltration of Identitarian groups by the “Forces of Order.” Below I try to summarize the four major stories of 2013. In this year there has been more state harassment, infiltration, and dissolution of Nationalist and New Right groups than in decades.
Thomas Ferrier: Martes 21 de Mayo a las 2:40 p.m. en el mismísimo altar de la catedral de Notre Dame de París, el historiador Dominique Venner, autor de Cœur Rebelle [Corazón Rebelde] (autobiografía), (more…)
Para os antigos, Homero era “o começo, o meio e o fim.” Uma visão do mundo e até mesmo uma filosofiaestão implicitamente contidas em seus poemas. Heráclito resumiu seu alicerce cósmico com uma frase bem colocada: (more…)
Olen terve niin ruumiiltani kuin sielultani, ja rakastan suuresti vaimoani ja lapsiani. Rakastan elämää enkä odota mitään sen jälkeen, paitsi kenties rotuni ja ajatusteni säilymistä. Elämäni iltapuolella ja ranskalaista ja eurooppalaista kotimaatani uhkaavien suunnattomien vaarojen edessä tunnen kuitenkin velvollisuudekseni toimia niin kauan kuin minulla on vielä voimia jäljellä. (more…)
Uuden avioliittolain vastustajat huutavat julki kärsimättömyyttään ja raivoaan. Jos huono laki säädetään, se voidaan aina kumota.
Luin juuri erään algerialaisen bloginpitäjän kirjoitusta. ”Oli miten oli”, hän sanoi, ”viidessätoista vuodessa islamistit nousevat valtaan ranskassa ja mitätöivät tämän lain.” Eivät varmastikaan miellyttääkseen meitä, vaan koska se on Sharian vastainen. (more…)
El suicidio de Dominique Venner el 21 de Mayo: Marine Le Pen se inclinó ante este gesto para despertar la conciencia, lo que puede parecer sorprendente, pero el honor es suyo. Una representante del grupo de payasas feministas Femen, trató de manchar su recuerdo al día siguiente, parodiando —en topless— su suicidio en el coro de Notre Dame. En su pecho magro estaba pintado: “Que el Fascismo descanse en el Infierno”. (more…)
Giampietrino (school of Leonardo), “Diana the Huntress”
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Translated by Giuliano Adriano Malvicini
Translator’s Note:
The following is an interview with Dominique Venner from 2001, originally published on the occasion of the release of his book Dictionnaire amoureux de la chasse. It seems fitting, as a last farewell, to let Dominique Venner himself speak.
Christopher Gérard: Who are you? How do you define yourself? A werewolf, a white falcon?
Dominique Venner: I am a Frenchman of Europe, or a European whose mother tongue is French, of Celtic and Germanic ancestry. (more…)
Every great people owns a primordial tradition that is different from all the others. It is the past and the future, the world of the depths, the bedrock that supports, the source from which one may draw as one sees fit. It is the stable axis at the center of the turning wheel of change. As Hannah Arendt put it, it is the “authority that chooses and names, transmits and conserves, indicates where the treasures are to be found and what their value is.” (more…)
Δεν ξεχνώ ούτε μια στιγμή τους αγώνες της εποχής μας. Δεν ξεχνώ ούτε μια στιγμή τις μάχες του παρελθόντος που μας έκαναν αυτό που είμασθε. Δεν ξεχνώ ούτε μια στιγμή ότι το να υπάρχεις δεν σημαίνει μόνον να αφιερώνεσαι και να αφοσιώνεσαι , αλλά επίσης, να μάχεσαι. Ούτε ξεχνώ ότι η ζωή έχει έντονες στιγμές και ήρεμες στιγμές, χαρές και στεναχώριες.
In his commentaries on the Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar claimed the ancient Celts were ruled by two principles: to fight well and to speak well. By this standard, the now famous essayist, historian, and former insurgent, Dominique Venner, who frequently identified with his Gallic ancestors, was the epitome of Caesar’s Celt—for with arms and eloquence, he fought a life-long war against the enemies of Europe. (more…)
Dominique Venner Le coeur rebelle
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1994
Of the 50 or so books written by the now world-famous Dominique Venner, Frontier Pistols and Revolvers is the sole one to have been translated into English. (more…)
Sebevražda Dominique Vennera dne 21. května v katedrále Notre Dame. Marine Le Pen se tomuto gestu procitnutí vědomí poklonila – což se může zdát překvapivé, nicméně jí to slouží ke cti. Již následující den se pokusily pošpinit jeho památku polonahé členky sdružení Femen, což je skupina feministických štěnic. Na jejich plochých hrudích stálo “Ať fašismus shoří v pekle.” Je to již podruhé, kdy tyto nahé poběhlice beztrestně řádily v katedrále, a to i přes bezpečnostní kontrolu u vchodu. (more…)
Είμαι υγιής σωματικά και πνευματικά και γεμάτος αγάπη για τη γυναίκα μου και τα παιδιά μου. Αγαπώ τη ζωή και δεν προσδοκώ τίποτε περισσότερο, εκτός από τη διαιώνιση της φυλής και του πνεύματός μου. Παρ’ όλα αυτά, στη δύση της ζωής μου, αντιμετωπίζοντας τεράστιους κινδύνους για την Γαλλική και Ευρωπαϊκή μου πατρίδα, νιώθω την υποχρέωση να δράσω, όσο έχω δυνάμεις. Πιστεύω πως είναι απαραίτητο να θυσιάσω τον εαυτό μου για να διακόψω το λήθαργο που μας πληγώνει. (more…)
Η αυτοκτονία του Dominique Venner στις 21 Μαϊου στην Notre Dame: Η Marine Le Pen υποκλίθηκε σε αυτή την χειρονομίας της αναδυόμενης συνειδητότητας, κάτι που μπορεί να μας εξέπληξε αλλά είναι προς τιμήν της. Μία γυμνόστηθη εκπρόσωπος της Femen, μίας ομάδας φεμινιστριών μπούφων, προσπάθησε ναβεβηλώσει την μνήμη του την επόμενη ημέρα, μιμούμενη την αυτοκτονία του στην χορωδία της Notre Dame. (more…)
Οι λόγοι για να ζει κανείς και οι λόγοι για να πεθάνει, είναι συχνά οι ίδιοι. Αυτή ήταν σίγουρα η περίπτωση για τον Dominique Venner, του οποίου η χειρονομία σκόπευε στο να φέρει την ζωή και τον θάνατό του σε απόλυτη αρμονία. Είπε ότι επέλεξε να πεθάνει κατά τον τρόπο που ήταν ο πιο έντιμος στις συγκεκριμένες συνθήκες, ειδικά όταν οι λέξεις είναι πια αδύνατον να περιγράψουν, να εκφράσουν το τι νοιώθουμε.
Zdrav sam umom i tijelom, i ispunjen sam ljubavlju za svoju ženu i djecu. Volim život i ne očekujem ništa onkraj njega već samo nastavak moje rase i mojeg duha. No, u predvečerje života, suočavajući se s ogromnim opasnostima za svoju francusku i europsku domovinu, osjećam dužnost djelovati dok još imam snage. Vjerujem da je nužno žrtvovati se kako bih razbio ovu ravnodušnost koja nas je zarazila. (more…)
The reasons for living and the reasons for dying are often the same. This was definitely the case for Dominique Venner, whose gesture aimed at bringing his life and death into deep accord. He said he chose to die in the way that was the most honorable in certain circumstances, particularly when words become powerless to describe, to express what we feel. (more…)
Dominique Venner’s suicide on May 21 at Notre Dame: Marine Le Pen bowed to this gesture of awakening consciousness, which may seem surprising, but it is to her credit. A topless representative of Femen, a group of feminist buffoons, tried to smear his memory the next day, mimicking his suicide in the choir of Notre Dame. (more…)
Jag är frisk till kropp och själ, och jag är full av kärlek till min hustru och mina barn. Jag älskar livet och förväntar mig inget därbortom, utöver att mitt folk och min anda ska leva vidare. När jag nu i mitt livs slutskede står inför oerhörda hot mot mitt franska och europeiska hemland, känner jag emellertid att jag måste handla medan jag har styrka att göra det. Jag anser att det är nödvändigt att uppoffra mig själv för att bryta den apati som hemsöker oss. (more…)
Manifestantes no 26 de maio [contra a recém aprovada lei do “casamento gay” na França] berrarão em sua impaciência e ira. Uma lei infame, uma vez aprovada, sempre pode ser repelida.
Eu acabo de ouvir a um blogueiro argelino: “De qualquer maneira”, ele disse, “em 15 anos os islamistas estarão no poder na França e removerão esta lei”. (more…)
Dominique Venner is too big for me to judge. Thus I am not going to criticize or second-guess his decision to end his life with a bullet at the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame on May 21, 2013.
A május 26-i tüntetők jogosan fogják harsogni türelmetlenségüket és haragjukat. Még ha meg is szavaznak egy becstelen törvényt, azt hatályon kívül lehet helyezni.
Most hallottam egy algériai blogban (internetes napló) : « Mindenesetre, 15 éven belül Franciaországban az iszlám hívei lesznek hatalmon és megszüntetik ezt a törvényt. » (more…)
Testileg és szellemileg ép vagyok, feleségem és gyermekeim körülölelnek szeretetükkel. Szeretem az Életet, a túlvilágtól nem is várok semmit, hacsak nem fajom és szellemiségem megörökítését. S mégis, életem alkonyán, francia és európai hazám elleni mérhetetlen veszélyek láttán, kötelességemnek tartom a cselekvést, amíg még erre van erőm. Szükségesnek tartom, hogy feláldozzam önmagamat és véget vessek a ránk nehezedő álomkórnak. (more…)
Jeg er frisk i både krop og sjæl og fyldt af kærlighed til min kone og børn. Jeg elsker livet og har intet håb om et efterliv, udover min races- og mit sinds overlevelse. Men i mit livs efterår, foran de store farer mit franske og europæiske fædreland står overfor, føler jeg behov for at handle, mens jeg stadig er i stand til det. Jeg tror, det er nødvendigt at ofre mig selv til at bryde med den apati, som plager os. Jeg ofrer hvad liv der stadig er i mig for at protestere og for at vise en grundlæggende modstand. (more…)
Jeg er frisk i kropp og sjel, og jeg er fylt av kjærlighet til min kone og mine barn. Jeg elsker livet og forventer ingenting bortenfor dette, foruten det evige livet til min rase og mitt sinn. Likevel, i mitt livs skumringstid, der vi står ansikt til ansikt mot enorme farer mot mitt franske og europeiske hjemland, føler jeg det som min plikt å handle så lenge jeg fortsatt har styrken til dette. (more…)
Protestující na demostraci 26. května (proti schválení “homosexuálních sňatků” francouzskou vládou dne 23. března) budou jistě dávat hlasitě najevo svoje znechucení a vztek. Jakýkoli hanebný zákon, který byl kdy schválen, může být vždy zrušen.
Nedávno jsem poslouchal jednoho alžírského blogera. “Na každý pád budou islamisté ve Francii do 15 let u moci a tento zákon zruší,” prohlásil. (more…)
Ich bin körperlich und geistig gesund und voller Liebe für meine Frau und meine Kinder. Ich liebe das Leben und habe keinerlei Hoffnungen auf ein Jenseits, allenfalls auf die Fortdauer meiner Rasse und meines Geistes. Da jedoch am Abend meines Lebens mein französisches und europäisches Vaterland in großer Gefahr schwebt, habe ich mich entschlossen, zu handeln, solange es meine Kräfte noch zulassen. (more…)
Jsem zdráv na těle i na duchu, pln lásky ke své ženě a dětem. Miluji život a nečekám, že přijde něco po něm, vyjma zachování naší rasy a myšlenek. Na sklonku svého života, kdy má francouzská, potažmo evropská otčina čelí nezměrnému nebezpečí, jsem však pocítil nutkání jednat, dokud ještě vládnu svými silami. Cítím, že je nezbytné, abych učinil oběť a rozbil tak letargii, jež nás zamořuje. Dávám vplen své ostatky za účelem protestu a položení nových základů. (more…)
Sono sano nel corpo e nella mente, e sono pieno di amore per mia moglie e i miei figli. Amo la vita e non mi aspetto nulla nell’aldilà, se non la perpetuazione della mia razza e del mio pensiero. Tuttavia, al calare della mia vita, di fronte a immensi pericoli per la mia patria francese ed europea, sento il dovere di agire finché ne ho ancora la forza. Credo che sia necessario sacrificare me stesso per rompere il torpore che ci affligge. (more…)
Eu estou sadio em mente e corpo, e estou repleto de amor por minha esposa e filhos. Eu amo a vida e não espero nada além, senão a perpetuação de minha raça e minha mente. Porém, no entardecer de minha vida, me deparando com imensos perigos para minha pátria francesa e europeia, eu sinto o dever de agir enquanto eu ainda tenho forças. Eu creio ser necessário me sacrificar para romper a letargia que nos empesteia. (more…)
Estoy saludable en cuerpo y mente, y lleno de amor por mi esposa e hijos. Amo la vida y no espero nada más allá, si no perpetuar mi raza e ideas. Sin embargo, en el ocaso de mi vida, encarando enormes peligros a mi patria francesa y europea, siento el deber de actuar mientras aún tengo fuerzas. Creo que es necesario sacrificarme para romper con el letargo que nos azota. (more…)
I am healthy in body and mind, and I am filled with love for my wife and children. I love life and expect nothing beyond, if not the perpetuation of my race and my mind. (more…)
On May 21, 2013, French author Dominique Venner, whose writings have featured prominently at Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entered the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, placed a sealed envelope on the altar, and shot himself in the head.
El 21 de Mayo de 2013, el autor francés Dominique Vennner, cuyos escritos han tenido un lugar destacado en Counter-Currents/North American New Right, entró a la Catedral de Notre Dame en París, dejó un sobre sellado en el altar y se disparó en la cabeza. (more…)
Borne along by the French Spring, the Conservative Revolution is in fashion. One of its most brilliant theorists deserves to be remembered, even if his name has long been maligned. Indeed it is scarcely flattering to be described as “Machiavellesque” if not “Machiavellian.” It can be seen as an aspersion of cynicism and deceit. (more…)
Seus nomes continuam a identificar os boulevards de uma capital única ainda que desfigurada: Berthier, Murat, Jourdan, Masséna, Soult, Brune, Bessières, e outros. Através de seu decreto de 19 de maio de 1804 Napoleão critou os primeiros catorze marechais do império, aos quais ele acrescentaria dez mais. (more…)
Em 1814, ao final das guerras Napoleônicas, Benjamin Constant escreveu com alívio: “Nós chegamos à era do comércio, à era que deve necessariamente substituir a da guerra, como a da guerra necessariamente tinha que precedê-la”. Ingênuo Benjamin! Ele tomou generalizada idéia de progresso indefinido, como promotora do advento da paz entre homens e nações.
Not for an instant do I forget the struggles of our time. Not for an instant do I forget the struggles of the past that made us who we are. Not for an instant do I forget that to exist is not just to dedicate and devote oneself but also to fight. Nor do I forget that life has intense moments and calm moments, joys and cruelties.
At first, everyone thought that the draft law on homosexual marriage was one of those booby-traps (in crude terms, asshole traps) by which politicians entertain the gallery, unable to act on real issues. (more…)
We are approaching Christmas (another name for the winter solstice). Associated with the evergreen tree, Christmas has always been celebrated in European countries since time immemorial as the great feast presaging the revival of nature and life after the repose of winter. (more…)
En 1814, al final de las Guerras Napoleónicas, Benjamin Constant escribió con alivio: “Hemos llegado a la era del comercio, la era que debe necesariamente reemplazar a la de la guerra, tal como la era de la guerra tuvo que necesariamente preceder.” ¡Iluso Benjamin! Asumió demasiado amplia la idea del progreso indefinido apoyando el advenimiento de la paz entre hombres y naciones.
Roland (right) receives the sword, Durandal, from the hands of Charlemagne (left)
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Translated by Greg Johnson
Author’s Note:
I reproduce here in full a seminal article that I published in Le Figaro on February 1, 1999, under the title: “Sovereignty is not Identity.” This article was part of the debate provoked by the Amsterdam Treaty and discussions about the future EU. (more…)
“My goal is to create total enmity between our current ‘culture’ and Antiquity. Whoever wants to serve the former must hate the latter.”—Friedrich Nietzsche[1]
When you belong to a nation associated with St. Louis, Philip the Fair, Richelieu, Louis XIV, or Napoleon, a country which in the late 17th century, was called the “great nation” (the most populated and most dangerous), it is cruel to recount the history of repeated setbacks: the aftermath of Waterloo, 1870, 1940, and again in 1962, the ignominious end of French rule in Algeria. A certain pride necessarily suffers. (more…)
Do ponto de vista geopolítico e histórico, a Europa é definida por suas fronteiras. O centro, o núcleo europeu, é formado de nações que, ainda que muitas vezes em conflito, tem experimentado uma história comum desde a Alta Idade Média. (more…)
The Trojan Horse: Detail of the neck relief on an early 7th century BCE earthenware amphora from Mykonos
743 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Current events sometimes offer striking examples of the unforeseen. Last spring, we were all shocked by images of one of the great and powerful looking despondent, his wrists shackled, having suddenly fallen from his perch of impunity. By means of the media, spectators felt that they were following much more than a single news event. (more…)
Jejich jména vtiskla název mnoha bulvárům našeho výjimečného, avšak zohyzděného hlavního města: Berthier, Murat, Jourdan, Masséna, Soult, Brune, Bessieres a další. Napoleon svým dekretem ze 14. května 1804 jmenoval prvních čtrnáct císařských maršálů, aby k nim zanedlouho přidal dalších deset. S jejich jmény se stále setkáváme v mnohých obvodech dnešní Paříže, jež si dnes už jejich slávy takřka neváží. (more…)
Není slepějšího člověka, než člověka který nechce vidět. Vzpomněl jsem si na toto přísloví nedávno, když jsem četl dlouhou veřejnou tirádu od klasického filologa na odpočinku. 1) Požívaje privilegovaného statusu ve Francii a také i ve Spojených státech, kde učil na renomované univerzitě, se tento dobrý profesor vysmíval označení zvolenému jeho krajany, kteří se označují za “původní” nebo také “autochtonní”. (more…)
Жодна людина не може бути більш сліпою, ніж та яка відмовляється бачити. Я недавно загадав цей вислів, читаючи довгу викривальну промову одного класичного науковця-пенсіонера [1]. (more…)
Навіть його власне ім’я повернулось проти нього. І дійсно, навряд чи хто втішатиметься епітетом «макіавеліанський». В уяві одразу вимальовуються тіні підступної та зрадливої жорстокості. Та все ж до написання свого найвідомішого та найскандальнішого твору – «Державець» Макіавеллі привела турбота про його батьківщину – Італію. (more…)
Arthur Koestler, the author of Le zéro et l’infini (in English, Darkness at Noon), once played an important role in the Spanish Civil War as an agent of the Comintern. Through his writings, he set the tone of an anti-Francoist propaganda that has endured. Later, his deceptions made him an acute critic of Stalinism. (more…)
Men have always felt the need to peer into the future. The Greeks asked the Pythia of Delphi. The obscurity of the oracle’s pronouncements lent them to multiple interpretations. (more…)
In the center of all the questions raised by the sinuous and contradictory path of François Mitterrand is the famous photograph of the interview granted to a young unknown, the future socialist president of the Republic, by Marshall Philippe Pétain in Vichy, on October 15th, 1942. (more…)
Niccolò Machiavelli by Santi di Tito: “I prefer my fatherland to my own soul.”
838 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Even his own name has been turned against him. Indeed it is hardly flattering to be described as “Machiavellian.” One immediately envisions a hint of cunning and treacherous violence. And yet what led Machiavelli to write his most famous and scandalous work, The Prince, was concern for his fatherland, Italy. (more…)
Dominique Venner is one of my favorite contemporary writers. Counter-Currents/North American New Right has now published more than 40 pieces by Venner in translation. Click here for a list.
History does not move like the course of a river, but like the invisible movement of a tide filled with eddies. We see the eddies, not the tide. (more…)
In 1814, at the end of the Napoleonic wars, Benjamin Constant wrote with relief: “We have arrived at the age of commerce, the age that must necessarily replace that of war, as the age of war necessarily had to precede it.” Naïve Benjamin! He took up the very widespread idea of indefinite progress supporting the advent of peace between men and nations.
Now that “soft commerce” has been globalized since the end of the 20th century, one must grant that it has the advantage of a plasticity and a capacity for survival enjoyed by few regimes up to the present.
Violence is not merely a matter of arms. For half a century, a world system has been imposed, the system of “soft commerce.” Soft as bombs. It dominates peoples under the guise of democracy, breaking down the most sacred customs. This new violence reigns thanks to the drugs of consumption and guilt. It is not, however, without resistance.
Pétain, De Gaulle . . . Let us think for a moment about those personages from a far-off time.
First, what a astonishing destiny for Marshal Pétain! To have risen so high and fallen so low! In the long history of France, other great personages were admired, but surely none was loved more before being denigrated so much. (more…)
Nothing is less spontaneous than the revolutionary consciousness. The revolutionary is wholly conscious of the struggle engaged between Nationalism, bearer of the creative and spiritual values of the West, and Materialism under its liberal or Marxist forms. (more…)
The action undertaken after the failure of April 1961 [the Generals’ Putsch] has made use of new means. It has mobilized a greater number of partisans and has resolutely pursued a violent and clandestine path. (more…)
After ten years of a very long siege, along with raids in the area, a quarrel opposed Agamemnon, chief of the Achaean coalition, and Achilles, the most famous hero of his camp. (more…)
Grave stele c. 340 BC found in the Ilissos river near Athens. A young warrior mourned by his aged father, small son, and dog.
753 words
Translated by Greg Johnson
Translations of this English translation: Czech, Ukrainian
No man is blinder than someone who refuses to see. I thought of this adage recently while reading a long public diatribe by a retired classicist.[1] (more…)
Rembrandt, “Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer,” 1653
930 words
Translated by Greg Johnson, German translation here
For the Ancients, Homer was “the beginning, the middle, and the end.” A vision of the world and even a philosophy are implicitly contained in his poems. Heraclitus summarized his cosmic foundation with a well-turned phrase: “The universe, the same for all beings, was not created by any god or by any man; but it always was, is, and will be eternally living fire . . .” (more…)
Their names continue to identify the boulevards of a unique though disfigured capital: Berthier, Murat, Jourdan, Masséna, Soult, Brune, Bessières, and others.
“Memory” is a much abused word. But so too is the word “love,” which doesn’t mean it can’t be used in its fullest sense. It’s the force of “memory,” transmitted within the bosom of the family, that enables a community to endure, despite all that seeks its dissolution. (more…)
Dominique Venner Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen
Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009
In Dominique Venner’s historical essay, Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen, the subject is presented as une figure ultime, a European archetype provisionally absent from Europe today, but nevertheless one rooted in the depths of the European spirit — and destined, thus, to re-appear should Europeans ever re-awake to re-assert themselves in the world.
The following excerpt is taken from the concluding chapter of Venner’s Gettysburg, one of two books he’s written on the War of Southern Secession. Like Maurice Bardèche’s Sparte et les sudistes [Sparta and the Confederates], it reflects the other side of that European anti-liberalism which crusades against everything contemporary America has come to represent. (more…)
), once played an important role in the Spanish Civil War as an agent of the Comintern. Through his writings, he set the tone of an anti-Francoist propaganda that has endured. Later, his deceptions made him an acute critic of Stalinism. 
, was concern for his fatherland, Italy. 
