After The Camp of the Saints Raspail wrote other novels, including North, Sire, and The Fisher's Ring. The 'hordes' of the world rise and, in the words of playwright Ian Allen, 'destroy the white race.' The book has been translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian, Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian and Portuguese, and as of 2006 it had sold over 500,000 copies. In his best known work, The Camp of the Saints (1973), Raspail predicts the collapse of Western civilization from an overwhelming 'tidal wave' of Third World immigration. In his 1990 novel Sire a French king is crowned in Reims in February 1999, the 18-year-old Philippe Pharamond de Bourbon, a direct descendant of the last French kings. His traditional Catholicism serves as an inspiration for many of his utopian works, in which the ideologies of communism and liberalism are shown to fail, and a Catholic monarchy is restored. In 1981, his novel Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie (I, Antoine of Tounens, King of Patagonia) won the Grand Prix du Roman (award for a novel) of the Académie française. Raspail served as Consul General of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia. He led a Tierra del Fuego– Alaska car trek in 1950–52 and, in 1954, a French research expedition to the land of the Incas. He attended private Catholic school at Saint-Jean de Passy in Paris, the Institution Sainte-Marie d'Antony and the École des Roches in Verneuil-sur-Avre.ĭuring the first twenty years of his career Raspail traveled the world. Internationally, he is best known for his controversial 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass third-world immigration to Europe.īorn on 5 July 1925 in Chemillé-sur-Dême, Indre-et-Loire, Raspail was the son of factory manager Octave Raspail and Marguerite Chaix. The French government honoured him in 2003 by appointing him to the Legion of Honor, with the grade of Officer. He was a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature by the Académie française. Many of his books are about historical figures, exploration and indigenous peoples.

Jean Raspail ( French pronunciation: , 5 July 1925 – 13 June 2020) was a French author, traveler, and explorer. Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (2007) Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (2003) Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française (1981) The Camp of the Saints Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie

Chemillé-sur-Dême, Indre-et-Loire, France

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