Clément Serpeille de Gobineau

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Maxime Louis Jean Clément Serpeille (25 May 1886 – 27 May 1944), was a French man of letters and political journalist.

Biography

He was born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Maxime Serpeille (1858–1930), a journalist at Le Gaulois, and Christine de Gobineau (1857–1944), daughter of Arthur de Gobineau.

A pacifist after World War I, Clément Serpeille de Gobineau joined political associations supporting the League of Nations. In 1931, he advocated a close agreement and economic collaboration between France, Germany and Italy.[1]

Fascinated by the work of his maternal grandfather, whom he tried to rehabilitate, Clément Serpeille de Gobineau wrote an article about him for a special issue of the journal Europe in October 1923. During his career, he published various writings on his grandfather.

Complacent about the Third Reich, both out of pacifism and sympathy for a government that was partly inspired by Gobinism, Serpeille de Gobineau contributed to the Völkischer Beobachter before World War II[2] and other French germanophile periodicals, such as Le Réveil du Peuple. In September 1933, he attended the Nuremberg rallies.[3] On June 23, 1939, his pro-German activities earned him a search warrant, which the government claimed, confirmed his links with the propaganda arm of the Third Reich.

On June 6, 1940, he was arrested, along with other journalists, Robert Fabre-Luce, Alain Laubreaux, Charles Lesca, Pierre Mouton and Thierry de Ludre, as a suspect of undermining state security.[4] He was incarcerated at the Santé prison and evacuated on June 12 to the Groues camp near Orléans, as the capital was about to be taken by the German forces. During the following days, Serpeille and his fellow prisoners were transferred to the Avord camp and then to the Gurs internment camp.[5] On August 12, his case was dismissed for lack of evidence.[6]

After his release from prison, Serpeille de Gobineau gave lectures and resumed his journalistic work. In February 1941, he joined the National Popular Rally, the party founded by Marcel Déat.[7] That same year, he became president of the honorary committee of the Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions[8] and began to publish several articles in Paris-soir and Notre Combat.

Serpeille de Gobineau did not accept the formula of France as an "Empire of 100 million men". He defended a clear demarcation between France and its colonies. The primacy of the metropolis should remain, according to him, not only for the racial safeguard of the French nation, as for the safeguard of the various indigenous races themselves, which should live in their own communities, and keep their own racial characteristics.[9]

On May 27, 1944, Serpeille de Gobineau died in the bombing of a train that was traveling between Paris and Maisons-Laffitte. His death certificate bears the mention "Died for France" by decision of the General Secretariat for Veterans dated February 1, 1945.

Works

  • “Correspondance. M. Frédéric Masson et Gobineau,” La Revue Hendomadaire, Vol. XI (1915)
  • “Gobineau par Son Petit-Fils,” Les Nouvelles Littéraires, No. 59 (1923)
  • “Le Gobinisme et la Pensée Moderne,” Europe, Vol. III, No. 9 (1923)
  • Correspondance entre le Comte de Gobineau et le Comte de Prokesch-Osten (1854-1876). Paris: Plon (1933; editor)
  • “Introduction.” In: Arthur de Gobineau, Morceaux Choisis. Paris: Gallimard (1937)[10]
  • “Préface.” In: Arthur de Gobineau, Nouvelles Asiatiques. Paris: Gallimard (1939)
  • “Préface.” In: André Chaumet and H. R. Bellanger, Les Juifs et Nous (1941)
  • “Notre Drapeau est à Nous,” Paris-soir, No. 385 (1941)
  • “Washington et Monroe Trahis par Roosevelt,” Paris-soir, No. 416 (1941)
  • “Introduction.” In: Arthur de Gobineau, La Troisième République française et ce qu'elle vaut. Paris: P. Lagrange (1943)

Notes

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  1. ↑ Le Quotidien (26 Décembre 1931), pp. 1–2.
  2. ↑ Le Matin (31 Mai 1944), p. 2.
  3. ↑ Le Journal Juif (16 octobre 1935), p. 2.
  4. ↑ Le Temps (7 juin 1940), p. 2.
  5. ↑ Jacques Boulenger, "Histoire d'un complot monté par Mandel," Le Matin (20 Octobre 1940), pp. 1–2.
  6. ↑ Le Figaro (13 Août 1940), p. 2.
  7. ↑ L'Œuvre (11 Février 1941), p. 1.
  8. ↑ Le Matin (10 mai 1941), p. 1.
  9. ↑ L'Union Française (15 Mai 1943), p. 3.
  10. ↑ At least six editions.
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