François Duprat
François Duprat (1940–1978) was an essayist and politician, a founding member of the Front National party, and part of the leadership until his assassination in 1978.
He was educated in Bayonne, Toulouse, and at the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He graduated in History at the Sorbonne, earning a diploma of higher studies in history in 1963.
A communist in his teenage years, François Duprat later became a nationalist. Duprat supported Arab states as an anti-Zionist. He became involved in several journals and was important for French revisionism regarding World War II and French Holocaust revisionism.
Duprat was killed on 18 March 1978, in a car-bomb explosion. His wife Jeanine was also injured in the attack, losing the use of her legs. A Jewish "Remembrance Commando" and a "Jewish Revolutionary Group" immediately claimed responsibility for the murder, but there are other claimed perpetrators, and the police investigation was inconclusive.
Each year Jean-Marie Le Pen pays his respects at Duprat's gravesite. At the 30th anniversary of his death, LePen paid tribute to Duprat being a "martyr to the cause of freedom of thought".
See also
- French State - On revisionist views on WWII France.
Exernal links
- Jewish Militants: Fifteen Years, and More, of Terrorism in France - The section "François Duprat"
- The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) - The section "François Duprat: A Precursor"
