Dominique Venner [SEP] native language
Dominique Venner
Dominique Venner (; 16 April 1935 – 21 May 2013) was a French historian, journalist and essayist. Venner was a member of the Organisation armée secrète and later became a white nationalist before withdrawing from politics to focus on a career as a historian. He specialized in military and political history. At the time of his death, he was the editor of the "La Nouvelle Revue d'Histoire", a bimonthly history magazine. On 21 May 2013, Venner committed suicide inside the cathedral of Notre Dame de
number of far-right personalities paid tribute to Venner and commended his public suicide. Marine Le Pen issued a tweet: "All our respect to Dominique Venner, whose final gesture, eminently political, was to try to awaken the people of France." Bruno Gollnisch described him as an "extremely brilliant intellectual" whose death was "a protest against the decadence of our society."
Others sought to distance themselves from Venner. Frigide Barjot, spokesperson for the anti-gay marriage movement "Manif pour tous",