1. Guillaume Faye was born on 7 November 1949 in Angouleme from a family close to the Bonapartist right.
16 Facts About Guillaume Faye
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Guillaume Faye attended the Paris Institute of Political Studies, where he ran the student's associations Cercle Pareto and Association GRECE between 1971 and 1973.
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Guillaume Faye soon became the head of movement's Secretariat for Research and Studies, and one of the major Nouvelle Droite theorists.
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Guillaume Faye wrote at that time for many New Right journals such as Elements, Nouvelle Ecole, Orientations, and Etudes et Recherches.
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Guillaume Faye is said to have been ousted from the think tank in late 1986, although his departure was only officially announced in August 1987 via a letter wrote by Pierre Vial to the newspaper Le Monde.
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Guillaume Faye then distanced himself from political activism and became actively involved with the media industry.
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Guillaume Faye was a journalist at L'Echo des Savanes and VSD, and appeared on the France 2 talk-show Telematin.
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Guillaume Faye went back to political activism in 1998 with the publication of his book Archeofuturism, followed in 2000 by The Colonization of Europe.
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Guillaume Faye organized conferences with GRECE sympathizers, Monarchists, Traditional Catholics and neo-Pagans.
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Guillaume Faye then became close to Terre et Peuple, a neo-Pagan movement founded in 1995 by former GRECE members Pierre Vial, Jean Mabire and Jean Haudry, but he was expelled in 2007 after the publication of his book The New Jewish Question, regarded within some revolutionary-nationalist and Catholic traditionalists circles as too overly "Zionist".
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Guillaume Faye died on 6 March 2019, after a long battle with cancer.
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Guillaume Faye has participated in the diffusion of an identity defined as biological and cultural.
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In 1985, Guillaume Faye stated that Zionist "opinion circles" in France had forced the French government to break ties with the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein, and he has denounced "Zionist lobbies" in the US that wished to influence geopolitics in favour of Israel.
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Guillaume Faye condemned what he has called "ethnomasochism", defined as the self-hating of one's own ethnic group.
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This, Guillaume Faye himself argues, can only proceed in a manner similar to the Conservative Revolution:.
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Guillaume Faye became an important figure of "national-westernism", finding himself alongside European far-right militants the likes of Gabriele Adinolfi, Pierre Krebs, Ernesto Mila, Pierre Vial or Galina Lozko to defend the "future of the white world", as one conference organized in Moscow in June 2006 was entitled.