Jean Raspail is author of the 1973 ‘Le Camp des Saints’ (The Camp of the Saints), a dystopian novel describing an invasion of immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent who land on the shores of Southern France in a flotilla of boats, then take control of the entire country. Raspail died on 12 June 2020, shortly before turning 95.
First translated into English in 1975, and still available in the 1994 edition by Social Contract Press, the novel has been quoted as a source of inspiration by Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and Rep. Steve King and has, so far, been re-published eight times in France, for the last time in 2011 with a foreword by the author, entitled ‘Big Other’.
It has often been compared to William Pierce’s ‘Turner Diaries’, although it lacks its rabid Antisemitism and does not reach the same climax of hysterical violence, even though it is also a book about the native French taking up arms against the ‘invaders’.
