Official website (http://www.dominiquevenner.fr/)
Dominique Venner
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French journalist and essayist (1935–2013)
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Dominique Venner was a French writer and historian. He was born on April 16, 1935, and died on May 21, 2013. Venner used the pseudonyms Julien Lebel and Jean Gauvin. He had five children.
His official website is www.dominiquevenner.fr. The site serves as the official online presence for Dominique Venner.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1935-04-16 ) 16 April 1935, Paris , France
- Died
- 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21) (aged 78), Paris, France
- Cause of death
- Suicide by gunshot
- Occupation
- Writer, historian, editor, soldier, activist
- Genre
- Non-fiction (History)
- Notable works
- Le Cœur rebelle , Baltikum: dans le Reich de la défaite, le combat des corps-francs, 1918-1923 , Histoire et Tradition des Européens: 30 000 ans d'identité , Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen
- Notable awards
- Broquette Gonin Price, 1981 (issued by the Académie française )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
www.dominiquevenner.fr | Le site officiel de Dominique Venner
Ce site n’est pas commercial. Il ne vend rien. Ce n’est pas non plus une entreprise favorisant le conformisme ou le prêt-à-penser. C’est le site d’un écrivain, précisément d’un historien, à destination de ceux qui ont la curiosité de s’interroger un instant sur tel de ses livres, de ses écrits, de ses réflexions, éventuellement sur lui.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean-Marie
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- 4th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- political activist
- Position held
- director
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Military branch
- French Army
- Official website
- www.dominiquevenner.fr
- Number of children
- 5
- Significant event
- funeral
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1935-04-16
- date of death
- 2013-05-21
- manner of death
- Suicide
- name in native language
- Dominique Venner
- pseudonym
- Jean Gauvin
- member of
- Secret Army Organization
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- birth name
- Dominique Charles Venner
- social media followers
- 1353
- writing language
- French
- P8168
- amateur film
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Encyclopedic overview
Dominique Venner ( French: [vɛnɛʁ]; 16 April 1935 – 21 May 2013) was a French journalist and essayist. Venner was a member of the Organisation armée secrète and later became a European nationalist, founding the neo-fascist Europe-Action, before withdrawing from politics to focus on a career as a historian. He specialized in military and political history. At the time of his death, he was the editor of the La Nouvelle Revue d'Histoire, a bimonthly history magazine.
On 21 May 2013, Venner, outraged by the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in France, killed himself inside the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. In a suicide note, he said his death was an act in "defence of the traditional family" and in the "fight against illegal immigration". Venner believed that the far-right had become too soft and that peaceful demonstrations against same-sex marriage were not enough to prevent a "total replacement of the population of France, and of Europe." The leader of the far-right National Front, Marine Le Pen, described the suicide as the act of a broken man desperately seeking to "re-awaken" his countrymen.
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