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The French soldier, historian, and European patriot Dominique Venner was born on this day in 1935. He famously ended his life with a bullet on the altar of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on May 21, 2013 to protest the demographic replacement of Europeans. Through both his life’s work and his death, Venner wished to draw attention to the demographic decline of European man and to indicate what we must be prepared to give to save our people: everything. But his death will be in vain unless it is remembered. So take this day to remember Dominique Venner: his life, his work, and his sacrifice.

Venner’s Last Words:

• “The Reasons for a Voluntary Death” (Translations: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish)


• “The May 26 Protests and Heidegger” (French original; translations: Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Tributes to Venner:

Venner’s Writings at Counter-Currents:

• “L’Action française 2000 Interviews Dominique Venner”


• “Are Marriage and Children Consumer Goods?”


• “Can History Address the Problems of the Future?”


• “Céline: Literary Giant & Racial Nationalist”


• “Christmas: Beauty in Life” (Spanish translation here)


• Christopher Gérard Interviews Dominique Venner


• “Does Identity Depend on Sovereignty?”


• “The Épuration: An Intellectual & Political Purge”


• “Europe and Europeanness” (translations: Finnish, Greek, German, Portuguese)


• “Europe in Dormition”


• “For a Positive Critique,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5


• “The Franco-French & European Civil Wars”


• “The Franco-German Rivalry: A Recent Conflict”


• “François Mitterrand and the French Mystery”


• “Franco’s Failure”


• “Hitler’s Failure”


• “Homer: The European Bible,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3


• “The Homeric Triad” (Portuguese translation here)


• “How are Revolutions Born?” (German translation here)


• “‘Indigenous’? How Dare You?” (Translations: Czech, Ukrainian)


• “An Internal Clash of Civilizations”


• “King Otto’s Trial”


• “Letter to My Friends on Identity and Sovereignty”


• “Living in Accordance with Our Traditions”


• “Love Nature, Love Life” (Greek translation here)


• “Machiavelli and the Conservative Revolution”


• “Machiavelli the European” (Ukrainian translation here)


• “The Metaphysics of Memory” (Czech translation here)


• “Nationalism & Europeanism” (Spanish translation here)


• “The National Revolution of 1940”


• “Pétain & De Gaulle: Two Figures of a Tragic Destiny”


• “A Posthumous Revenge”


• “The Punishment of the German People”


• “The Rebel: An Interview with Dominique Venner” (Translations: Czech, Portuguese)


• “Secret Aristocracies” (Translations: Czech, Russian)


• “The De-Judaization of France”


• “‘They’re All Rotten’”


• “Totalitarianism: A Specious Concept”


• “Toward a New Aristocracy” (Translations: Czech, Portuguese)


• “The Unforeseen, The Chinese, and the Favorable Moment”


• “Violence and ‘Soft Commerce,'” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3


• “The Warrior and the City” (Translations: Portuguese, Spanish)


• “The Yogi and the Commissar”


• “Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death”

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