He was an explorer and adventurer, but he is most remembered for his stories. The royalist writer, Jean Raspail, author notably of the sulfurous The camp of the saints , a novel imagining with dread the arrival of a million migrants on the French Riviera, died Saturday a few days from his 95th birthday, a have we learned from his publisher and his son.
Hospitalized at Henry-Dunant hospital in Paris, the writer, a traditionalist Catholic, received the last sacraments on Friday and died "surrounded by his family," his son Quentin told AFP.
Recipient of numerous awards
In 1981, he received the Grand Prix du roman from the French Academy, for Me, Antoine de Tounens, King of Patagonia . Throughout his career, he also won numerous titles for all of his work.
On the announcement of his death, personalities paid tribute to him, like Marine Le Pen, who stressed "an immense loss for the national family" and encouraged his subscribers to read Le Camp des Saints "who, at beyond evoking with a talented pen the migratory perils, had, long before Submission , mercilessly described the submission of our elites. "
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