Carrefour de l'Horloge

Carrefour de l'Horloge
Formation1974 (1974)
FounderHenry de Lesquen, Jean-Yves Le Gallou, Yvan Blot and others
TypeMeta-political club
Purpose
HeadquartersParis
LeaderHenry de Lesquen
Websitehttp://cdh.fr
Formerly called
Club de l'Horloge

The Carrefour de l'Horloge (literally The Clock Crossroad), formerly Club de l'Horloge (1974–2015), is a French far-right national liberal think tank founded in 1974 and presided by Henry de Lesquen.[1] The organization promotes an "integral neo-Darwinist" philosophy, characterized by a form of economic liberalism infused with ethnic nationalism.[2]

Born as a splinter group from GRECE in the years 1974–79, the Carrefour de l'Horloge shares many similarities with the Nouvelle Droite, although it stands out by its defense of Catholicism and economic liberalism. Like the Nouvelle Droite, they use meta-political strategies to diffuse their ideas in wider society; however, the Carrefour de l'Horloge favours more direct methods, such as entryism into mainstream parties and senior public offices, along with the creation of catch-all slogans to influence the public debate. The group and its members have for instance coined terms like "national preference" and "re-information",[3][4][5] and participated in popularizing the concepts of "Great Replacement" and "remigration" in France.[6]

  1. ^ Camus & Lebourg 2017, p. 121.
  2. ^ Camus & Lebourg 2017, pp. 42, 121.
  3. ^ Lamy 2016, p. 379.
  4. ^ Laurens 2014, p. 81: "Les premières formalisations du programme du Front national en matière d’immigration sont essentiellement issues du livre rédigé par Jean-Yves Le Gallou en 1985 (La Préférence nationale : réponse à l’immigration) et ainsi formulées dans les termes d’une contribution à la lutte contre le chômage."
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Albertini was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Dupin 2017.

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