Jacques Ploncard (13 March 1910 – 20 February 2005), also called "Jacques Ploncard d'Assac", was a French writer and journalist and a political activist – he was, among other things, a member of the Parti Populaire Français. Following the fall of the Vichy regime, he escaped to Portugal's Estado Novo in 1945, where he counselled Salazar. He introduced Yves Guérin-Sérac, one of the co-founders of the OAS, to the PIDE. After the April 1974 Carnation Revolution, he returned to France and collaborated on Présent, a newspaper which maintained loose links with Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Jacques Ploncard also wrote Doctrines of Nationalism. Selected bibliography Pourquoi je suis anti-juif (Why I Am Anti-Jew), 1938 La Franc-maçonnerie ennemie de l'Europe (Freemasonry, Europe's Enemy), 1943 Doctrines du nationalisme, 1958 Salazar, 1967 Under the pen-name "La Vouldie": Mme Simone de Beauvoir et ses mandarins (Madame Simone de Beauvoir and her Mandarins), 1955 1910 births 2005 deaths People from Chalon-sur-Saône French Popular Party politicians People affiliated with Action Française People of Vichy France French Integralism Order of the Francisque recipients French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers