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After Charles de Gaulle’s death in 1970, France’s new leaders launched a quiet revolution. Under the guise of guiding the country into a new progressive era, they destroyed everything that had made it great. Éric Zemmour’s The Suicide of France pulls back the veil on their project, showing the contempt France’s new leaders had for her culture, heritage, and institutions.
These new leaders destroyed the strong presidential republican system that de Gaulle had built, replacing it with the government of activist judges. They attacked the authority of the father figure, replacing him with the hollow, feminized man of managerial society. And despite their constant expressions of disdain for the United States, they imported the worst of its post-60s multicultural and economic revolutions into France to replace her people and ways. Step-by-step, episode-by-episode, Zemmour describes the devious stratagems and devices that eroded the soul of a once-great nation.
Released in 2014, The Suicide of France became a runaway bestseller, turning its author into one of the most famous—and infamous—writers and political figures in France. Now available for the first time in English, this edition includes a new introduction and conclusion. Zemmour reflects on what has happened in France over the past decade. He recounts why he jumped from writer to politician, running for president of France in 2022 and founding a new political party, Reconquête!. Finally, he reflects on the precarious situation of France and the United States today as they struggle to preserve their shared civilization.
The Suicide of France is a work of thrilling prose and high intellectual ambition. Already it can be called a classic. As Paul Johnson did in Modern Times, Zemmour takes the events of the last half-century, long shrouded in progressive clichés, and places them in a more logical relationship: “We were taught to love what we used to hate,” he writes, “and to hate what we used to love.”
— Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
Zemmour is that rare type of public intellectual who combines erudition, patriotism, and spiritedness. With unsparing clarity, he vividly retells the story of how the French ruling class destroyed the country he loves through Muslim immigration, feminist ideology, and transnationalism. This is essential reading for understanding France’s crisis, as well as the broader post-sixties decline of the West.
— David Azerrad, Hillsdale College
The Suicide of France is the best single book that has been written about what has happened to France since 1968. An invaluable resource for understanding contemporary France. A highly readable set of vignettes. The new translation by Nathan Pinkoski is excellent and faithful to the original.
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Founder and CEO of Sphere Media
Zemmour’s The Suicide of France offers a Copernican turn. What if the “Derision, Deconstruction, and Destruction” extolled by the progressive intellectual and political elites was to be deconstructed? Over a decade after its original publication, this book’s attack on the dogmas that shape the French political landscape is more than ever a key to understand what went wrong in France and in the Western world.
— Marie Kawthar Daouda, author of Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us
If you want to understand the revolution that engulfed the West over the last half century, this is the book to read. Zemmour shows how developments on the financial, political, and sexual fronts combine to dispossess us of a stable and meaningful world. He also shows that the ever-more militant inversions of reality demanded by the powerful come down to daddy issues: hatred of the figure of the father.
— Matthew B. Crawford, senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture