1. Jean Varenne was a French Indologist and a prominent figure of the Nouvelle Droite.
11 Facts About Jean Varenne
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Jean Varenne taught Sanskrit at the Aix-Marseille University, then at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, where he was eventually nominated professor emeritus.
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Jean Varenne was born on 12 June 1926 in Marseille, Provence.
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Jean Varenne attended Lycee Thiers, then Aix-Marseille University and the University of Paris, earning a PhD in Sanskrit studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes.
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Jean Varenne was a member of the French School of the Far East, and taught in India and Cambodia.
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Jean Varenne worked as a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico and at the University of Chicago in the second part of the 1960s.
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In 1974, Jean Varenne joined the patronage committee of Nouvelle Ecole, a review published by GRECE, an ethno-nationalist think tank led by Alain de Benoist.
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Jean Varenne quit his teaching position at Aix-Marseille in 1980, and co-founded with Jean Haudry and Jean-Paul Allard the "Institute of Indo-European Studies" at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 the same year.
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Jean Varenne was appointed professor of Sanskrit philology, Indian civilization and history of religions at Lyon 3 in 1981.
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Jean Varenne was involved with the neo-fascist magazine Defense de l'Occident, led by Maurice Bardeche.
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Jean Varenne served as the president of GRECE from 1984 to 1987, and was a member of the Institute of Formation of the Front National of Jean-Marie Le Pen.