Abstract

Throughout the development or the French New Right as a intellectual movement, Alain de Benoist has exercised a remarkable degree of control. From its break with the Catholic nationalist Right (in the late 1960s) through its redefinition as a European national movement with a socio-biological focus to its more recent engagement on behalf of Third World as well as European communitarian identities, the New Right has been primarily the evolving creation of a single mind. Whether under pseudonyms like Robert de Herte or in collaboration with Pierre Vial, Jean Mabire, Guillaume Faye, Giorgio Locchi, and other like-minded thinkers, Benoist has had a tree hand in moulding his movement.