Maurice Rollet

Maurice Rollet (30 January 1933 – 21 January 2014) was a French poet, activist and medical doctor.^[1] He sometimes used the pseudonym François Le Cap.

Maurice Rollet
Born	(1933-01-30)30 January 1933 Joigny, France
Died	21 January 2014(2014-01-21) (aged 80)
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Poet, activist and medical doctor

Biography

In the 1960s, he was involved as a far right-wing activist with Jeune Nation, Europe-Action, and supported the OAS, for which he was imprisoned. In 1968 he was one of the co-founders of the Nouvelle Droite think tank GRECE and became its first president.^[2] According to Rollet, the organization was founded at his birthday party in Marseille on 29 January 1968, although this account has been contested.^[3]

In 1973 he co-founded the neopagan scouting organization Europe-Jeunesse alongside Jean-Claude Valla and Jean Mabire.^[4] Unlike some Nouvelle Droite activists who only adopted paganism as an intellectual position, Rollet saw it as a true way of life. He described what he called his "native faith" (French: foi native) as an individual approach based on rootedness, harmony with the cosmos, the constant search for physical and moral aesthetics, tolerance, and respect for the "Other".^[1] Rollet held contact with the World Congress of Ethnic Religions based in Vilnius.^[5]

His poetic works are marked by neopaganism. Some of his lyrics have been set to music by the singer Docteur Merlin, and are featured on the album Soleil de Pierre.^[1] Rollet acted in the movies The Rebel (1980) and La Flambeuse (1981).^[6]

He died on 21 January 2014.^[1]

Bibliography

• Des Rimes et des Runes (in collaboration with Perig Kerys), Pyrene, 1980
• Le Mai 68 de la Nouvelle Droite (anthology), Labyrinthe, 1998
• Michel Marmin (ed.), Liber Amicorum Alain de Benoist, Les Amis d'Alain de Benoist, 2004
• Rencontre avec Robert Dun (anthology), Les Amis de la Culture Européenne, 2006
• Balades au cœur de l'Europe païenne (anthology), Les Éditions de la forêt, 2002.