Roland Gaucher (13 April 1919 – 27 July 2007) was the pseudonym of Roland Goguillot, a French far-right journalist and politician. One of the main thinkers of the French far-right, he had participated in Marcel Déat's fascist party Rassemblement National Populaire (RNP) under the Vichy regime. Sentenced to five years of prison for Collaborationism after the war, he then engaged in a career of journalism, while continuing political activism. One of the co-founders of the National Front (FN) in October 1972, he became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the FN in 1986. Early career Roland Gaucher entered politics as a far-left activist, first as a member of the Trotskyist group Fédération des étudiants révolutionnaires (Federation of Revolutionary Students) and then of the Jeunesses socialistes ouvrières (Workers' Socialist Youth), where he met with Robert Hersant and Alexandre Hébert, who would become one of the leaders of the social-democrat trade-union Force Ouvrière (FO). However, Gaucher shifted to the far right during World War II, joining Marcel Déat's Rassemblement National Populaire (RNP) Fascist party in March 1942. He was responsible for the RNP's youth organisation, and for its Parisian section from May to November 1943. He criticized the Vichy regime for being too "moderate" and not executing enough people. At the time of France's Liberation, he was in charge of deleting the archives of the National Populaire 's readers, which was the mouthpiece of the RNP. At the end of 1944, according to Marcel Déat's diary, he fled with Marshal Philippe Pétain's men to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany. Post-war (1945–1980s) Gaucher was sentenced to five years of prison for Collaborationism after the war. After that, he took up a career in journalism, working in Robert Hersant's L'Auto-Journal (Hersant had also been condemned for Collaborationism ), Les Ecrits de Paris, Est et Ouest and then as a reporter (grand reporter) for the far-right newspaper Minute from 1965 to 1984. In the meantime, he joined Georges Albertini's anti-Communist networks through the BEPI and Est and Ouest. He participated in Pierre Poujade's movement. In the middle of the 1950s, he joined Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour's Rassemblement national, becoming its secretary general. From 1959 to 1960 he was an employee of the ANFAN (Association National des Français d'Afrique du Nord, National Association of Frenchmen from North Africa), and in 1961 secretary of the AEIPI. He was one of the co-founders of the National Front (FN)