Quote du Jour | Pour épater les bourgeois
In the pages of L’idiot international, the Sartre-founded journal to which Limonov regularly contributed after relocating to Paris in 1980, the writings of the “fascist Gramscian” luminary Alain de Benoist appeared alongside those of left intellectuals and assorted contrarians. One might, in hindsight, describe its offices as a veritable hub of red-brown intellectual activity, though others would shrug that the French move in mysterious ways to affront common decency — pour épater les bourgeois.