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Christian Bouchet

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Christian Bouchet
Bouchet in 2012
Born (1955-01-17) 17 January 1955 (age 71)
OccupationsJournalist, politician

Christian Bouchet (French: [kʁistjɑ̃ buʃɛ]; born 17 January 1955) is a French far-right journalist and politician.

Biography

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Coming from a far-right family with monarchist and Organisation armée secrète links, in 1970 Bouchet joined the monarchist group Restauration nationale, and, in 1971, a member of Nouvelle Action française which was a split (called in France a "Mao-maurrassien" group) of the former.[1]

In 1973, he served in the Organisation lutte du peuple, a nationalist revolutionary splitter group of the far-right movement Ordre Nouveau intended to defend the nationalist movements of the Third World, particularly the Arab states opposed to Zionism and what they perceived as American imperialism. He subsequently became a member of François Duprat's Groupes nationalistes révolutionnaires and of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement [fr] (Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire) of