Some forty-seven years later, its still an unfolding story. Paris, London, Greece, Minneapolis, California, Texas, and on and on.

I have an original copy somewhere.


"During the first twenty years of his career Raspail traveled the world to discover populations threatened by their confrontation with modernity. 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. Raspail served as Consul General of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia.[1] 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.

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 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.

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. The "hordes" of the world rise and, in the words of playwright Ian Allen, "destroy the white race."[2] The book has been translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian, Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese, and as of 2006 it had sold over 500,000 copies.[3]

After The Camp of the Saints Raspail wrote other novels, including North, Sire, and The Fisher's Ring. Raspail reiterated these views in a co-written 1985 article ("Will France Still Be French in 2015?") for Le Figaro magazine, where he asserted "the proportion of France's non-European immigrant population will grow to endanger the survival of traditional French culture, values and identity".[4]

Raspail was a candidate for the French Academy in 2000, for which he received the most votes[5] yet did not obtain the majority required for election to the vacant seat of Jean Guitton.

An article by Raspail for Le Figaro on 17 June 2004, entitled "The Fatherland Betrayed by the Republic",[6] in which he criticized the French immigration policy, was sued by International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism on the grounds of "incitement to racial hatred", but the action was turned down by the court on 28 October.

In 1970 the Académie française awarded Raspail its Jean Walter Prize for the whole of his work.[7] In 2007 he was awarded the Grande Médaille d’Or des Explorations et Voyages de Découverte by the Société de géographie of France for the whole of his work."[8]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Raspail


It is still available on Amazon, not yet censored.



"This new (6th) edition includes an interview with the author, Jean Raspail s comments to the French newspaper Le Figaro near the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, a collection of reviews of the book at the time it was first released in the United States, and two additional supplements: Lee Mare s introduction and his translation of Raspail s foreword to the 2011 French edition, titled Big Other."