Jean Raspail Dies At 94: Lived Long Enough To Say “I Told You So”
Jean Raspail Dies At 94: Lived Long Enough To Say “I Told You So”
James Fulford, 06/13/2020
Jean Raspail, author of The Camp Of The Saints, a 1973 novel about mass migration destroying France and the West, has died at age 94. So far it seems to have only been reported in the French media, with headlines like Mort de Jean Raspail, écrivain et explorateur, auteur du «Camp des Saints», by Michaël Naulin, Le Figaro, July 13, 2020.
At the moment, when search Google News for “Raspail”, you get French death notices, and New York Times story, illustrated with a picture of presidential aide Stephen Miller, titled A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence, by Elian Peltier and Nicholas Kulish, NYT, November 22, 2019.
Miller and GOP Congressman Steve King are alleged to have read Raspail’s book, and to have pointed out—correctly—that it was prophetic, and that’s a bad thing, according to the NYT, which is in the business of deciding what’s not fit to print, and suppressing it. (Their story is in the “news”, rather than Opinion section of the paper.)
We have been covering Raspail and his prophesies since we began here at VDARE.com.
See Truth Follows Fiction: Camp Of The Saints begins in France, by Paul Craig Roberts, February 20, 2001.
See also:
“BIG OTHER”—In New Foreword To CAMP OF THE SAINTS, Jean Raspail Names Those Wringing France’s Neck, by Martin Witkerk, March 19, 2019
The Camp Of The Saints Is About To Go Prime-Time: “African Exodus Of Biblical Proportions Impossible To Stop”, by Paul Nachman, December 4, 2017
THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS: This Century’s ‘1984’, by Chris Roberts, September 12, 2017
90-year-old Jean Raspail Says: I Told You So, by Steve Sailer, September 30, 2015
NYT: “Camp of Saints” and “Submission” Are Recipes, Not Cookbooks, by Steve Sailer, June 30, 2015
The Relevance Of Raspail—Visionary French Novelist Saw It Coming, Published Just Before Censorship Crackdown, by Martin Witkerk, May 19, 2015
Camp of the Saints Author Jean Raspail Fears for the Future of European Civilization, by Brenda Walker, May 27, 2013
Powell, Raspail: Prophets Without Honor?, by Patrick J. Buchanan, August 22, 2006
I’ll add that VDARE.com has a large number of copies of the physical book, The Camp of The Saints, in English translation.
It’s not up on our book page at the moment, but we used it in a promotion for an earlier appeal for funds—see The Book They Don’t Want You To Read—Now Available On VDARE.com.
Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you want to buy one—they may be the last physical copies on the North American Continent.
To quote another controversial Frenchman:
“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
Hilaire Belloc, 1923
Jean Raspail, author of famous anti-migration novel Camp of the Saints, dies at 94
By MICHAEL LORD for Voice of Europe 14 June 2020:
Jean Raspail, the French novelist who penned the famous and prophetic anti-immigration novel The Camp of the Saints, passed away yesterday at the age of 94. His novel has served as a warning of the dangers of uncontrolled immigration and has been an inspiration to anti-migration politicians and activists for nearly half a century.
The author died yesterday at the Henri-Dunant Hospital in Paris, according to a report by Libération.
Raspail wrote over forty books — novels, anthologies of short stories, travel writings, and ethnographical studies. But his most famous work was unquestionably The Camp of the Saints, which was first published in French in 1973 and then translated into many other languages. The novel describes a massive invasion of Europe by illegal migrants coming from the Third World. European governments find themselves powerless to stop the invasion as they are told that the migrants are coming to “enrich, cleanse, and redeem the capitalist West,” aided by some European politicians and journalists.
Unwilling to sanction violence against the migrants as it is deemed immoral, Europe ends up submitting to the invaders, who refuse to integrate into European society and go on a killing spree of anyone who opposes their presence. Left-wing groups support them and join in the killings. Eventually, pro-immigration governments are established in all European countries and native Europeans are forced by the authorities to put up migrants in their homes.
While this may read like today’s headlines, this was Raspail’s prophecy in 1973, when mass immigration into Europe was only just beginning. It has been estimated to have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide.
Born in 1925, Raspail was also a renowned world traveler who had an interest in traditional populations who were endangered by the onslaught of modernity. He was a traditional Catholic and an opponent of liberalism, as evinced in many of his works. His 1990 novel Sire describes the failure of the French Republic and the restoration of the monarchy.
He remained a critic of France’s immigration policies throughout his later life and was charged with inciting racial hatred under France’s hate speech laws in 2004, although the charges were ultimately dismissed.
In 1970, Raspail was awarded the Jean Walter Prize by the Académie française for the entire corpus of his work.
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