Christian Bouchet

Christian Bouchet (born 17 January 1955 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire) is a French far right journalist and politician. An exponent of the Third Position, he has had sympathies to National Bolshevism.

Coming from a far right family with monarchist and Organisation de l'armée secrète links, Bouchet served the Organization lutte de peuple and the Groupes nationalistes révolutionnaires before reading Julius Evola and discovering the concepts of tantra and Shaivism.

After a spell in the Troisième Voie he set up Nouvelle Résistance in 1991 whilst also refounding the European Liberation Front. This group was absorbed by Unité Radicale in 1998. He has since gone on to lead the study group Réseau Radical which emphasised anti-Zionism. In recent years Bouchet has advocated a closer link between nationalist groups and Islam. He has also led the 'radical' tendency within the National Republican Movement and has sat on its national council. After declaring to have broken with his former activism, he joined the Front National and became a local branch leader. Marine Le Pen ousted him from this post as a part of her attempt to "purge" the party from antisemitic and radical ideas, but he still remains a party member

He had published journal like Lutte de Peuple and now Résistance which focused on leftist nationalist and anti-Zionism themes. He owns some publishing house which publish volumes of Devi, Jean-François Thiriart, Francis Parker Yockey, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Aleksandr Dugin and others.

In the original edition of his book Hitler's Priestess Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote that Bouchet has been associated with Nazi mysticism and that, whilst spending a year in India, he met with Savitri Devi to study Kali Yuga and her ideas about Adolf Hitler as an Avatar. These claims did not however appear in the French language edition of the same work. In the postscript to the book Le national-socialisme et la tradition indienne Bouchet claimed that Goodrick-Clarkes's allegations were fake, stating that he had met Savitri Devi only once and considered her to be a crank, adding that he has no personal interest in Nazi mysticism.

Christian Bouchet has done a PhD in anthropology in the University Paris Diderot about Aleister Crowley and wrote a lot of books about the extremist engagement in politics and religion.