1. Renaud Camus is the inventor of the "Great Replacement", that claims that a "global elite" is colluding against the white population of Europe to replace them with non-European peoples.
24 Facts About Renaud Camus
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Renaud Camus has repeatedly condemned and publicly disavowed violent acts which have been perpetrated by far-right terrorists entertaining his theories.
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Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus was born on 10 August 1946 in Chamalieres, Auvergne, a rural town in central France.
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Renaud Camus's parents removed him from their will after he revealed his homosexuality.
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Renaud Camus earned a baccalaureat in philosophy in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, in 1963.
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Renaud Camus then spent a year at a non-university college, St Clare's, Oxford.
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Renaud Camus earned a bachelor in French literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, a master in philosophy at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and two Master of Advanced Studies in political science and history of law at the University Pantheon-Assas.
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Renaud Camus taught French literature at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas from 1971 to 1972, then was a redactor in political science for the encyclopedia publisher Grolier from 1972 to 1976.
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Renaud Camus was a professional reader and literature advisor at French book publisher Denoel from 1970 to 1976.
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Renaud Camus was a columnist for the French gay magazine Gai pied.
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Renaud Camus was a member of the Socialist Party during the 1970s and 1980s, and he voted for Francois Mitterrand in 1981, winner of the French presidential election.
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In 1992, at the age of 46, using the money from the sale of his Paris apartment, Renaud Camus bought and began to restore a 14th-century castle in Plieux, a village in Occitanie.
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Renaud Camus stated in a 2016 interview with British magazine The Spectator that he began to develop his theory in 1996, while editing a guidebook about the department of Herault.
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Renaud Camus supported for a time the left-wing souverainist politician Jean-Pierre Chevenement, then voted for the ecologist candidate Noel Mamere in the 2002 presidential election.
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Renaud Camus declared that a key to understanding his "Great Replacement" theory can be found in a book about aesthetics he published in 2002, titled Du Sens.
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In 2015 Renaud Camus headed an initiative to launch Pegida France alongside Pierre Cassen of Riposte Laique, Jean-Luc Addor of the Swiss People's Party, Pierre Renversez of the Belgian "No to Islam" and Melanie Dittmer of the German Pegida.
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In May 2019, Renaud Camus ran, along with Karim Ouchikh, for the European parliament elections: "we shall not leave Europe, we shall make Africa leave Europe," they wrote to define their agenda.
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Renaud Camus has denied being a nationalist, suggesting that the exact meaning of the word differs in French and English, in response to a Homeland Party member calling him such.
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On 9 November 2017, Renaud Camus founded, with Karim Ouchikh, the National Council of European Resistance, an allusion to the WWII French National Council of the Resistance.
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Renaud Camus's account was reactivated in January 2023 thanks to a policy of general amnesty announced by Twitter's new owner Elon Musk.
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Renaud Camus has since gained a number of defenders among French-Jewish conservative thinkers, most notably Alain Finkielkraut, who has taken his side in the controversy since 2000.
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Renaud Camus sees democracy as a degradation of high culture and favours a system whereby the elite are guardians of the culture, thus opposing multiculturalism.
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Renaud Camus is openly gay and has given support to same-sex marriage.
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Renaud Camus has said that homophobia and opposition to gay rights within conservative Islam justifies anti-Muslim sentiment, and that the mainstream left has often prioritised defending Islam and anti-racism over criticising Muslim homophobia.