Jean Raspail

Jean Raspail (born 5 July 1925 at Chemillé-sur-Dême, Indre-et-Loire) is a French author, traveler and explorer. He is best known for his controversial 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass Third world immigration to Europe.

Jean Raspail is the son of factory manager Octave Raspail and Marguerite Chaix. He attended private Catholic school at Saint-Jean-de-Passy in Paris, the Institution Sainte-Marie d'Antony and the in Verneuil-sur-Avre.

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. 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.

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