Henry de Lesquen

French official, politician and radio director

Henry de Lesquen (born 1 January 1949) is a French politician. A retired official and former radio host, de Lesquen has been the president of the Carrefour de l'Horloge, a national liberal think tank, since 1985. A blogger and YouTuber since the 2010s, he has participated in popularising the concept of "remigration" in France, as well as spreading racialist concepts built on anthropologist Carleton S. Coon's works.

Henry Bertrand Marie Armand de Lesquen du Plessis Casso was born on 1 January 1949 in Port Lyautey, Morocco, then a French protectorate, the son of Pierre de Lesquen du Plessis Casso, a general of the French Army and Anne Marie Huon de Kermadec. Both his father and mother were from noble Breton families. De Lesquen's maternal grand mother, Camille Medina, was born Guatemalan and naturalized French. De Lesquen entered Polytechnique in 1968, then earned a bachelor in economics and joined the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in 1974.

With his friend from ENA Jean Yves Le Gallou, de Lesquen founded the Club de l'Horloge in July 1974. Criticizing the meta politics of Alain de Benoist's GRECE, the Club de l'Horloge aimed at concrete results, favoring entryism inside the French mainstream right wing parties of the period: the Rally for the Republic (RPR) and the Union for French Democracy. The book La Politique du vivant ("The Politics of living"), published in 1979 under the direction of de Lesquen, drew influence from GRECE theories on sociobiology, genetic determinism and social darwinism. Since the years 1979 80, the Club de l'Horloge has distanced itself from GRECE, promoting instead an "economic liberalism strongly tainted with nationalism."

From 1974 to 1978, de Lesquen has been in charge of the program bureau for the French highways at the Ministry of Equipment. He became head of the bureau of energies, raw materials and chemistry at the Ministry of Finances from 1979 to 1983. De Lesquen has been also a lecturer in economics at Sciences Po from 1978 to 1987. In 1987, he was nominated by mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac secretary general of the Office Public d'Aménagement et de Construction (OPAC) and remained at this position until 1990; he had been accused of enacting unofficial ethnic quotas.

Lesquen runs a Youtube channel, totalling several million views, in which he expresses his political theories and has attracted a lot of young people who label themselves the Jeunesses Lesquenistes ("Lesquenist Youth"). He founded a political movement in 2018, and restoring traditional French values and liberal economics through ideological influence rather than elected office. Using irony and provocative symbolism akin to the Alt Right movement, the logo of his party imitates the Wolfsangel used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in WWII. Through his online videos, Lesquen participated in popularizing the concept of "remigration" in France and spreading racialist theories built on anthropologist Carleton S. Coon's works.

He described Marine Le Pen as "a leftist woman entertaining herself hearing negro music in nightclubs" and an "incult" and the National Rally as a "pederastic lupanar."

At the end of 2018, he decided to support the "Yellow Vests", denouncing over taxation and describing the movement as made up of "French people from French ancestors". He stated that slavery was a historical necessity due to the low economic and technological levels and that Black slaves were relatively well treated. He described transsexual individuals as "perverts" and "mentally diseased" deserving psychiatry. In March 2020, Lesquen stated "there is worse than coronavirus: judeovirus" at a meeting of the "Swiss Resistance" organization.

Henry de Lesquen is a traditionalist Catholic. He broke off relations with his daughter, Clélie, after she married a Jew.