France: Camp of the Saints, Revisited

Article author: 
Steven Hayward
Article publisher: 
Powerline
Article date: 
6 August 2015
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

If you want to see the immigration crisis getting completely out of control, check out northern France, where several thousand “migrants”—as the press describes them—are trying to charge through the Channel Tunnel to Britain, where, they suppose, the welfare state will take care of them. It hasn’t been receiving much media coverage in the U.S., except for the Wall Street Journal, which notes today that the disruption at the Channel is bad for business...

It looks more and more like Jean Raspail’s controversial 1973 novel, The Camp of the Saints, come to life. Raspail’s novel imagined a flotilla of several million refugees from south Asia making its way to France, landing like an invading force, and . . . destroying the country. Raspail intended it as a mordant critique of western liberal guilt, since all right thinking people welcomed the invasion (welcoming banners read, “We’re all from the Ganges now”)...

 


References on Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints

The Camp of the Saints, Jean Raspail, The Social Contract, Winter 1993-1994

The Camp of the Saints Revisited, John Tanton, The Social Contract, Winter 1994-1995

The Traditionalism of Jean Raspail, The Social Contract, Winter 1994-1995

Read The Camp of the Saints

Download and read The Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail, 1973 edition, Archive.org.

Download and read The Camp of the Saints in PDF format, Vibdoc.com, 1973.

Download and read The Camp of the Saints in PDF format, Ebook Download, 1973.