To wit, to crush with the weight of shame and remorse the common, foot slogging soldier of the Western World, lord of its ancient battles, deserted by all his generals to a man, but a powerful force all the same.

Like a kind of anti-Joan of Arc, charged by King Dio with a thousandfold mission.

“ The journalist’s pen gave him many a size and shape, but one thing never changed: his contempt for tradition, his scorn for Western Man per se, and above all the patriotic Frenchman. His target was the inversion of virtue, the political anti-order that it produced, and the tyranny it naturally, inadvertently must lead to: Much like the Englishman Enoch Powell, Raspail attracted a large following of concerned compatriots at home, but also like Powell, he was hated by the those whose heritage he sought to defend from the continuing onslaught of political iconoclasts and cultural vandals, in France and elsewhere. A Catholic and Royalist man of letters, his warnings were expectantly and depressingly greeted with denunciation and slander. Throughout his life, Raspail witnessed the demise of his country, as it suffered under the collective imbecility of its political and cultural elites. Jean Raspail, who is perhaps best know as the author of the prophetic dystopian novel Camp of the Saints, passed away on Saturday 13 June at the age of 94.

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