Gérard Leclerc (writer)

For other people with the same name, see Gérard Leclerc.

Gérard Coustenoble (born June 14, 1942), better known as Gérard Leclerc, is a French political journalist, philosopher, essayist and royalist activist. Close to the late Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, he is a columnist for France Catholique and Radio Notre-Dame.

Biography

Gérard Leclerc was born at Hirson a commune in the Aisne department. He became a journalist in 1968 and wrote for the weekly Aspects de la France. In 1971, he participated in the founding of the New Royalist Action (NAR) and became a member of its steering committee. He is also the political director of the movement's organ NAF Hebdo.

He was convicted in the 1970s for defamation of Alain de Benoist. In 1974, he wrote a remarkable essay on Maurras: Un autre Maurras, which proposed a new reading and application of his thought. This novel approach takes into account the leftist temptation of certain Action Française students, the debates that Leclerc had engaged in with the leaders of the National Restoration: Pierre Pujo, Pierre Juhel and Bernard Mallet, and is inspired by the work of the Catholic philosopher Maurice Clavel.

Later, Leclerc joined the staff of Le Quotidien de Paris as religion expert, while continuing to write the "Ideas" column of the bi-monthly Royaliste, an organ of the New Royalist Action.

During the legislative elections of 1978, he was the candidate of the NAR in Nord's 1st constituency, facing Norbert Ségard.

A friend of Jacques Julliard and Régis Debray, he now collaborates with numerous publications and media, including Le Figaro, Le Spectacle du Monde, KTO, and especially with the weekly France Catholique and Radio Notre-Dame, where he is an editorialist.

Works

• Un autre Maurras (1974)
• Avec Bernanos (1982)
• La Bataille de l'école: 15 siècles d'histoire, 3 ans de combat (1985)
• L'Église catholique, 1962-1986. Crise et renouveau (1986)
• Jean-Paul II. Le résistant (1996)
• Pourquoi veut-on tuer l'Église? (1996)
• Le pape et la France (1997)
• Saint Paul (1997)
• Portrait de monsieur Guitton (1999)
• L'amour en morceaux? (2000; awarded the Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand)
• Le bricolage religieux (2002)
• Les dossiers brûlants de l'Église. Au soir de la vie de Jean-Paul II (2002)
• Les dossiers brûlants de l'Église. Les défis de Benoît XVI (2005; updated edition)
• Rome et les lefébvristes (2009)
• L'Église face à la pédophilie (2010)
• Roma e i lefebvriani (2011)
• Abécédaire du temps présent (chroniques de la modernité ambiante) (2011)
• Lefebvristes: le retour (2012)
• Sous les pavés, l'Esprit (2018)

External links

• Official website
• Works by Gérard Leclerc at Gérard Leclerc