Renaud Camus - Revision history

Clementine Boucher: /* Court case */

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Melissa Jones: various edits

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Melissa Jones: /* Involvement in politics */

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Clementine Boucher at 14:55, 19 September 2016

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Clementine Boucher: /* New Reactionaries */

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Hilary Aked: /* New Reactionaries */

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 ==Court case==
-In 2014, Camus was convicted for incitement to hatred for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre Cassen]]), in which he spoke of his 'Great Replacement' theory. The court fined him 4,000 euros. <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
+In 2014, Camus was convicted for incitement to hatred for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre Cassen]]), in which he spoke of his 'Great Replacement' theory. The court fined him 4,000 euros. <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html Renaud Camus condamné pour provocation à la haine contre les musulmans], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
 Camus appealed, but the sentence was reconfirmed in April 2015. <ref> [http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1582975-20150409-provocation-haine-contre-musulmans-condamnation-renaud-camus-confirmee Provocation à la haine contre les musulmans: La condamnation de Renaud Camus confirmée], ''20Minutes'', 09 April 2015. Accessed 19 September 2016. </ref>

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 ==Court case==
-In 2014, Camus was convicted for incitement to hatred for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre Cassens]]), in which he spoke of his 'Great Replacement' theory. The court fined him 4,000 euros. <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
+In 2014, Camus was convicted for incitement to hatred for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre Cassen]]), in which he spoke of his 'Great Replacement' theory. The court fined him 4,000 euros. <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
 Camus appealed, but the sentence was reconfirmed in April 2015. <ref> [http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1582975-20150409-provocation-haine-contre-musulmans-condamnation-renaud-camus-confirmee Provocation à la haine contre les musulmans: La condamnation de Renaud Camus confirmée], ''20Minutes'', 09 April 2015. Accessed 19 September 2016. </ref>

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 In the 1960-70s, Renaud Camus had befriended left-wing intellectuals such as Louis Aragon, the famous Communist poet and founder of surrealism, and Simone De Beauvoir, a feminist and existentialist scholar. Roland Barthes, the star of the Collège de France, had written the preface to Renaud Camus' most famous novel, ''Tricks'', the cult-classic book of gay culture.
-==New Reactionaries==
+=='New Reactionaries'==
-According to the BBC journalist Hugh Schofield, Camus has been classified as a member of a group some have termed the 'neo-reactionnaires' (new reactionaries): 'a loose group of writers and thinkers' who represent a 'new intellectual force in France' challenging 'the disastrous post-1968 left-wing consensus' and seeking to 'shake up debate on issues like immigration, Islam and national identity'. Critics believe they are 'providing spurious philosophical cover for the extremism of the [[Front National]]'.<ref name="Beeb">Hugh Schofield, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30436692 France shaken up by Zemmour and 'new reactionaries'], BBC News, 14 December 2014</ref>
+According to the BBC journalist Hugh Schofield, Camus has been classified as a member of a group some have termed the 'neo-reactionnaires' (new reactionaries): 'a loose group of writers and thinkers' who represent a 'new intellectual force in France' challenging 'the disastrous post-1968 left-wing consensus' and seeking to 'shake up debate on issues like immigration, Islam and national identity'. Critics believe they are 'providing spurious philosophical cover for the extremism of the [[Front National]]'.<ref name="Beeb">Hugh Schofield, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30436692 France shaken up by Zemmour and 'new reactionaries'], ''BBC News'', 14 December 2014</ref>
 Others deemed to be new reactionaries include writers [[Eric Zemmour]] and philosopher [[Alain Finkielkraut]].<ref name="Beeb"/>
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 ==Views==
-===Support for the FN===
+===Support for the Front National===
-Camus was reportedly spurned by French literary society after saying he would vote for [[Marine Le Pen]]'s far-right [[Front National]] party at the last [2014] election.<ref name="Beeb"/>
+Camus was reportedly spurned by French literary society after saying he would vote for [[Marine Le Pen]]'s far-right [[Front National]] (FN) party at the 2014 election.<ref name="Beeb"/>
 ===On immigration===
-Camus has reportedly argued 'there is nothing right-wing about me. But I just happen to think that today's immigration is the most important thing to have happened to France - ever'.<ref name="Beeb"/>
+Camus has argued 'there is nothing right-wing about me. But I just happen to think that today's immigration is the most important thing to have happened to France - ever'.<ref name="Beeb"/>
 ==Involvement in politics==
-Camus has also formed a political party, "Le Parti de l’In-nocence" and adds position statements to the party’s website on a nearly daily basis, although the party remains insignificant in electoral terms.
+Camus has also formed a political party, "Le Parti de l’In-nocence" and adds position statements to its website almost daily, although the party remains insignificant in electoral terms.
-On the 2016 version of the website is a quote from [[Franz Fanon]], a known Algerian postcolonial author, speaking of the total colonisation and domination of African peoples by European masters. The strategy used by colonisers consists of both brute force, and of the destruction of indigenous culture and values (''« L'asservissement, au sens le plus rigoureux, de la population autochtone est la première nécessité. Pour cela il faut briser ses systèmes de référence ; l'expropriation, le dépouillement, la razzia, le meurtre objectif se doublent d'une mise à sac des schèmes culturels ou du moins conditionnent cette mise à sac. Le panorama social est déstructuré, les valeurs bafouées, écrasées, vidées. »''). The party seems to be, by pushing for the 'Grand Replacement' theory, using Fanon in a way that accuses Muslim migrants of colonising Europe in a similar way. <ref> http://www.in-nocence.org </ref>
+On the 2016 version of the website is a quote from [[Franz Fanon]], a known Algerian postcolonial author, speaking of the total colonisation and domination of African peoples by European masters. The strategy used by colonisers consists of both brute force, and of the destruction of indigenous culture and values (''« L'asservissement, au sens le plus rigoureux, de la population autochtone est la première nécessité. Pour cela il faut briser ses systèmes de référence ; l'expropriation, le dépouillement, la razzia, le meurtre objectif se doublent d'une mise à sac des schèmes culturels ou du moins conditionnent cette mise à sac. Le panorama social est déstructuré, les valeurs bafouées, écrasées, vidées. »'').<ref> http://www.in-nocence.org </ref> The party seems to be, by pushing for the 'Grand Replacement' theory, using Fanon in a way that accuses Muslim migrants of colonising Europe in a similar way.
 ==Court case==

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 ==Court case==
-In 2014, Camus was convicted for incitement to hatred for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre Cassens]]), in which he spoke of his theory of the 'Great Replacement'.He was fined 4,000 euros) <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
+In 2014, Camus was convicted for incitement to hatred for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre Cassens]]), in which he spoke of his 'Great Replacement' theory. The court fined him 4,000 euros. <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
 Camus appealed, but the sentence was reconfirmed in April 2015. <ref> [http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1582975-20150409-provocation-haine-contre-musulmans-condamnation-renaud-camus-confirmee Provocation à la haine contre les musulmans: La condamnation de Renaud Camus confirmée], ''20Minutes'', 09 April 2015. Accessed 19 September 2016. </ref>

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 ==Court case==
-In 2014, he was convicted for incitement to hatred (a fine of 4,000 euros) for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre cassens]]), in which he spoke of his theory of the 'Great Replacement'. <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
+In 2014, Camus was convicted for incitement to hatred for a speech he gave in December 2010 at the "Assises internationales sur l'islamisation" (organised by [[Christine Tasin]] and [[Pierre Cassens]]), in which he spoke of his theory of the 'Great Replacement'.He was fined 4,000 euros) <ref> [http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/renaud-camus-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-haine-contre-les-musulmans_1507772.html], ''L'Express'', 10 April 2014. Accessed 19 September 2016 </ref>
-He appealed, but the sentence was reconfirmed in April 2015. <ref> [http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1582975-20150409-provocation-haine-contre-musulmans-condamnation-renaud-camus-confirmee Provocation à la haine contre les musulmans: La condamnation de Renaud Camus confirmée], ''20Minutes'', 09 April 2015. Accessed 19 September 2016. </ref>
 ==Notes==

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	Camus lives 'in self-imposed isolation in a 14th-Century fortress in the wilds of Gascony'.<ref name="Beeb"/>		Camus lives 'in self-imposed isolation in a 14th-Century fortress in the wilds of Gascony'.<ref name="Beeb"/>
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		+	[[Image:Le Jour ni l'Heure 5076 autoportrait minimal, Plieux, bibliothèque, mardi 7 juin 2011, 225646.jpg \|250px\|right\|thumb\|Renaud Camus, self-portrait from 26 January 2014, Paris. ''Author'': Renaud Camus]]

	==Background==		==Background==

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 ==New Reactionaries==
-According to the BBC journalist Hugh Schofield, Camuscan has been classed as a member of a group some have termed the 'neo-reactionnaires' (new reactionaries): 'a loose group of writers and thinkers' who represent a 'new intellectual force in France' challenging 'the disastrous post-1968 left-wing consensus' and seeking to 'shake up debate on issues like immigration, Islam and national identity'. Critics believe they are 'providing spurious philosophical cover for the extremism of the [[National Front]]'.<ref name="Beeb">Hugh Schofield, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30436692 France shaken up by Zemmour and 'new reactionaries'], BBC News, 14 December 2014</ref>
+According to the BBC journalist Hugh Schofield, Camuscan has been classed as a member of a group some have termed the 'neo-reactionnaires' (new reactionaries): 'a loose group of writers and thinkers' who represent a 'new intellectual force in France' challenging 'the disastrous post-1968 left-wing consensus' and seeking to 'shake up debate on issues like immigration, Islam and national identity'. Critics believe they are 'providing spurious philosophical cover for the extremism of the [[Front National]]'.<ref name="Beeb">Hugh Schofield, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30436692 France shaken up by Zemmour and 'new reactionaries'], BBC News, 14 December 2014</ref>
 Others deemed to be new reactionaries include writers [[Eric Zemmour]] and philosopher [[Alain Finkielkraut]].<ref name="Beeb"/>