Jean Raspail is a French author, traveler and explorer. Jean Raspail was born the son of factory manager Octave Raspail and Marguerite Chaix. He attended private Catholic colleges at Saint-Jean-de-Passy in Paris, the Institution Sainte-Marie d'Antony and the Ecole des Roches in Verneuil-sur-Avre. During the first twenty years of his career, he traveled the world to discover populations threatened by the confrontation with modernity. In 1950?52, he led the Tierra del Fuego?Alaska car trek and in 1954, the French research expedition to the land of the Incas. In 1981, his novel Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie, won the Grand Prix du Roman of the Acad�mie fran�aise. 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 the 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. Raspail's seminal work is The Camp of the Saints. 

July 5th, 1925 in Chemillé-sur-Dême  /  Died:   Jun 13th, 2020 - aged 94