1. Jean Mabire was a French journalist and essayist.
16 Facts About Jean Mabire
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Jean Pol Yves Jacques Mabire was born in Paris on 8 February 1927, to a bourgeois family originally from Vire, Normandy.
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Jean Mabire attended the College Stanislas, where he earned a baccalaureat in literature and philosophy.
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In 1949, at the age of 22, Jean Mabire created the regionalist magazine Viking and in 1951 left Paris to settle in Cherbourg, Normandy, where he founded a graphic arts workshop.
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Jean Mabire wrote the majority of the 162 articles published by the magazine until its end in 1958.
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Jean Mabire regarded the Normans as part of the "Nordic race" and his magazine gave a great importance to Scandinavian cultures and Viking history.
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In 1958, Jean Mabire was sent as a reserved soldier to North Africa during the Algerian War and demobilized in October 1959 as a Reserve Captain.
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Jean Mabire was one of the architects of the euro-nationalist break with the old French nationalism supported by the magazine.
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Jean Mabire supported instead a pan-European nationalism, decentralized and based on the identities of regions, seen as smaller ethnic nations, a thesis later embodied in Yann Fouere's "Europe of 100 Flags", published in 1968.
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In 1968, Jean Mabire became a founding member of the Mouvement Normand, and the following year he helped Georges Bernage establish Heimdal, a regionalist magazine and intellectual successor of Viking.
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Jean Mabire wrote in Heimdal about Norman poets, Nordicism and Scandinavian mythology.
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Jean Mabire became an active member of GRECE in 1970, and took part in its "federal council" and "commission of traditions".
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In 1973, Mabire co-founded the neopagan scouting organization Europe-Jeunesse with Jean-Claude Valla and Maurice Rollet.
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Jean Mabire participated, along with other GRECE members Pierre Vial and Jean Haudry, in the founding of the association Terre et Peuple in 1995.
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Jean Mabire moved in 1982 to Saint-Malo, in the Saint-Servan quarter.
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Jean Mabire died of leukemia on 29 March 2006 in Saint-Malo, Brittany, at the age of 79.