French novelist and conspiracy theorist (born 1946)
Renaud Camus
Camus in 2019
Born
Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus (1946-08-10) 10 August 1946 (age 77) Chamalières, France
Pen name
J. R. G. Le Camus[1]
Education
Sorbonne University
University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Sciences Po
Notable works
Tricks (1979)
The Great Replacement (2011)
Notable awards
Prix Fénéon (1977)
Prix Amic (1996)
Political party
Socialist (1970s–1980s)
No-harm [fr] (2002–present)
SIEL (2015–present)
Renaud Camus (/kæˈmuː/; French:[ʁənokamy]; born Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus on 10 August 1946) is a French novelist, conspiracy theorist, and white nationalist writer. He is the inventor of the "Great Replacement", a far-right conspiracy theory that claims that a "global elite" is colluding against the white population of Europe to replace them with non-European peoples.[2][3]
Camus's "Great Replacement" theory has been translated on far-right websites and adopted by far-right groups to reinforce the white genocide conspiracy theory.[4] Camus has repeatedly condemned and publicly disavowed violent acts which have been perpetrated by far-right terrorists stemming from his theories.[5][6][7][8]
^"Camus, Renaud (1946 )". Idref.fr. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
^Taguieff, Pierre-André (2015). La revanche du nationalisme: Néopopulistes et xénophobes à l'assaut de l'Europe. Presses Universitaires de France. PT71. ISBN 9782130729501. To [the theory of a replacement through mass immigration], that claims itself to be an observation or a description, is added in the "anti-replacist" vision a conspiracy theory which attributes to the "replacist" elites the desire to achieve the "Great Replacement".
^Korte, Barbara; Wendt, Simon; Falkenhayner, Nicole (2019). Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture. Routledge. PT10. ISBN 9780429557842. This conspiracy theory, which was first articulated by the French philosopher Renaud Camus, has gained a lot of traction in Europe since 2015.
^Shafak, Elif (1 April 2019). "To understand the far right, look to their bookshelves". The Guardian.
^Wildman, Sarah (15 August 2017). ""You will not replace us": a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant". Vox. He seemed surprised by the notion that his ideas could in any way be associated with the white nationalists marching in Charlottesville. He condemned the violence and insisted he has no connection to Nazism
^Heim, Joe; McAuley, James (15 March 2019). "New Zealand attacks offer the latest evidence of a web of supremacist extremism". The Washington Post. Camus, now 72, told The Washington Post that he condemns the Christchurch attacks and has always condemned similar violence ... Camus added that he still hopes that the desire for a "counterrevolt" against "colonization in Europe today" will grow, a reference to increases in nonwhite populations ... France Culture is among the most highbrow radio programs in Europe, a French equivalent of NPR. Camus has also discussed the "great replacement" on Répliques, a program anchored by Alain Finkielkraut, a prominent French intellectual.
^Polakow-Suransky, Sasha; Wildman, Sarah (16 March 2019). "The Inspiration for Terrorism in New Zealand Came From France". Foreign Policy. Jean-Yves Camus (no relation to Renaud), a French scholar of the far-right, sees Tarrant's ideas as more firmly rooted in Raspail's thinking than in great replacement theory. "The shooter is much more extreme than Renaud Camus," he said in an email exchange Friday. "Camus coined the term 'grand remplacement' to show his belief that the native European population is being uprooted by the non-Caucasian immigrants, especially the Muslims. Renaud Camus never condoned violence, much less terrorism." He added: "Raspail is another thing."
^Byman, Daniel (16 May 2022). "The Global Roots of the Buffalo Shooting". Foreign Policy. In fact, although white supremacists in the United States and elsewhere have long claimed the white race is under attack, the Great Replacement theory itself originated in France with philosopher Renaud Camus (though Camus himself rejects violence).
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historian Nicolas Lebourg and political scientist Jean-Yves Camus suggest that RenaudCamus's contribution in The Great Replacement (2011) was to replace...
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Great Replacement" (in reference to a far-right theory from France by RenaudCamus) that he was in particular inspired by Breivik and claimed to have been...
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the French far-right white genocide theory of the same name by writer RenaudCamus. He also announced his attacks on 8chan /pol/. Tarrant livestreamed the...
called the Great Replacement, often attributed to the French writer RenaudCamus. While the document uses language about immigrants similar to that used...