Alain de Benoist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alain de Benoist

French journalist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1943

Place of Birth: Saint-Symphorien, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Profession: writer, philosopher, political activist, essayist, political theorist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Alain de Benoist de Gentissart (; French: [d? b?nwa]; born 11 December 1943), also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte and other aliases, is a French journalist and political philosopher, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite ("New Right"), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE. Principally influenced by thinkers of the German Conservative Revolution, de Benoist is opposed to Christianity, the rights of man, neoliberalism, representative democracy, egalitarianism; and what he sees as embodying and promoting those values, namely the United States.
He theorized the notion of ethnopluralism, a concept which relies on preserving and mutually respecting individual and bordered ethno-cultural regions.His work has been influential with the alt-right movement in the United States, and he presented a lecture on identity at a National Policy Institute conference hosted by Richard B.
Spencer; however, he has distanced himself from the movement.