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French academic and Identitarian activist Not to be confused with Pedro Vial.
Pierre Vial
Pierre Vial in 2012.
Born (1942-12-25) 25 December 1942 (age 81)
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Medievalist, activist

Pierre Vial (born 25 December 1942) is an academic medievalist tied to the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. A Nouvelle Droite leader, he is the founder of the far-right, neopagan association Terre et Peuple.

Biography

Pierre Vial was born on 25 December 1942. He was in his youth a contributor in Cahiers universitaires, the magazine of the Federation of Nationalist Students.

He co-founded the Nouvelle Droite think tank GRECE in 1968, serving as its secretary general from 1978 to 1984. Vial promoted a neopagan stance in the vein of Marc "Saint-Loup" Augier.

Vial joined the Front National (FN) in 1988. The same year, he obtained a teaching position at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. He soon reached the leadership ranks of the FN, serving as a member of the Institute of Formation of the party. However, Vial complained in both GRECE and the FN of a lack of focus on the ethnic dimension of identity, and he eventually decided to establish his own movement Terre et Peuple in 1994, launched publicly in 1995.

In a public declaration delivered at a Terre et Peuple meeting in May 2000, Vial lamented the "ethnic colonization" of France by non-European immigrant communities with a different "biological infrastructure". The "true cultural revolution", Vial ventured, was "the ethnic revolution, the revolution of identity".

References

  1. Pierre Vial. BNF.
  2. Shields 2007, p. 96.
  3. ^ Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 137.
  4. Rousso 2004, p. 67.
  5. François 2005, p. 56.
  6. Zúquete 2018.
  7. Shields 2007, p. 148.

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