Michel Marmin

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Michel Marmin
Born (1943-11-18) 18 November 1943 (age 77)
NationalityFrench
OccupationJournalist, art critic

Michel Marmin (born 18 November 1943) is a French journalist and film critic.

Biography

Born 18 November 1943, [1] Michel Marmin was a member of the non-religious scouting association Éclaireurs de France in the 1950s. [2] He attended the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. [3]

Marmin is aligned with the neopagan faction of the French New Right. [4] In 1971, he was recruited by media entrepreneur Raymond Bourgine and began to work as a cinema critic for Valeurs Actuelles (1972–1978). [5] Upon the public launch of GRECE's magazine Éléments in September 1973, Marmin became its first president, followed by Pierre Vial in 1983. [6] [7] He also served as the deputy secretary general of GRECE, in charge of press relations. [8]

In September 1976, he co-founded the publishing house Copernic. [8] Marmin then worked for Le Figaro between 1978 and 1980, and as the redactor-in-chief of the encyclopedia branch of Éditions Atlas  [ fr ]. [5] Between 1991 and 1992, he served as the president of GRECE. [9]

He is the co-scenarist of the films Pierre and Djemila (1987) and Ainsi soit-il  [ fr ] (2000), which led to controversies in the media due to his far-right involvement. [10] [11]

In 2012–2013, Marmin was among the sponsors of TV Libertés, a far-right web TV. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Marmin, Michel (1943-....). BNF.
  2. ↑ Duranton-Crabol 1988, p. 21.
  3. ↑ Duranton-Crabol 1988, p. 83.
  4. ↑ Camus, Jean-Yves (2015). "A Long-Lasting Friendship: Alexander Dugin and the French Radical Right". In Laruelle, Marlène (ed.). Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe–Russia Relationship. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. p. 91. ISBN   978-1-4985-1068-4.
  5. 1 2 Duranton-Crabol 1988, pp. 35, 188, 231.
  6. ↑ Milza, Pierre (2002). L'Europe en chemise noire: Les extrêmes droites européennes de 1945 à aujourd'hui. Fayard. ISBN   978-2-213-65106-4.
  7. ↑ d'Appollonia, Ariane Chebel (1998). L'extrême-droite en France: De Maurras à Le Pen. Editions Complexe. p. 324. ISBN   978-2-87027-764-5.
  8. 1 2 Taguieff, Pierre-André; Tarnero, Jacques; Badinter, Robert (1983). Vous avez dit fascismes ?. Arthaud-Montalba. ISBN   9782402119221.
  9. ↑ Camus, Jean-Yves; Monzat, René (1992). Les droites nationales et radicales en France: répertoire critique (in French). Presses Universitaires de Lyon. ISBN   978-2-7297-0416-2.
  10. ↑ Staff (13 May 1987). ""Pierre et Djemila", de Gérard Blain Les enfants qui voulaient s'aimer". Le Monde . Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  11. ↑ Azoury, Philippe (18 December 2000). "Blain ainsi soit-il". Libération (in French).
  12. ↑ "L'extrême droite à la recherche de fonds". La Lettre A (in French). 24 January 2013.
Bibliography
Duranton-Crabol, Anne-Marie (1988). Visages de la Nouvelle droite: le GRECE et son histoire. Presses de Sciences Po. ISBN   978-2-7246-0561-7.
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