Nailing European history's coffin
Nailing European history's coffin

Maurice Dantec died two months ago of a heart attack in his home in Montreal, where he lived with his wife Sylvie and their daughter Eva. In the last twenty years of his life, Dantec had chosen Quebec, fed up with “Europe’s decadence”. When asked if Canada was suffering from the same cultural malaise, Dantec replied: “The political correctness does damage even in the anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian Quebec, which supports the principles of Hezbollah and those of Gay Pride. Although Canada is in danger as throughout the West, at the same time here everything is volatile, unlike in the ‘Franska Republika’ where it takes longer to take root but then it becomes unmovable”.

His novel “The Red Siren”, published in 1992, had shaken the French world of letters, turning Dantec into a cult author. But a few years later, the most famous French publisher, Antoine Gallimard, refused to publish Dantec’s diary. The writer’s “sins” were comments likes this: “The next extermination camps will operate in the name of jihad” (he was right, think about ISIS mass graves). When the press asked Dantec why Gallimard had refused it, he said: “They probably got orders from the Great Mosque of Paris”.

One of Dantec’s last political comments dates back to 28 June 2003 and has just been re-released by the French monthly Causeur. Dantec understood the fate of the old continent. “I have seen the future of Europe as the sun went down on Sarajevo in a majestic silence. Its was as great as a world collapsing under its own weight. I had tears in my eyes”.

Dantec attacked “democratic pacifism” and the “old harpies of Bolshevism” who want to “to nail the history of Europe to the coffin”. Dantec argued that “there are several methods to kill a civilization. One is to make you sick and then convince you that you’re saved, when the medicine administered is actually a nasty poison”. Yes, I saw the future of Europe, Dantec wrote: “A great liberal-socialist area, with no political sovereignty, much less religious. Oh, I can already hear the nasal voices whining in my ears: ‘Fascist’, ‘Cassandra’, ‘Bushist’ so on, because the leftist scum in power for twenty years do not like to be reminded of its crimes, lies, mistakes”.

For Dantec, Europe was killed with the Charter of Nice which had first deleted the Judeo-Christian roots of Europe in its never approved constitution. “25 centuries of European history are dying at the foot of the Brussels’ bureaucracy, while we try to remove any reference to the Christian civilization in what should be the future Charter of the New Union”.

Yes, I have seen the future of Europe, said Dantec, and that is “the great imploding process that awaits the continent which turns its back to the West, to Christianity, to freedom”. In the style of the protagonist of his novels, the melancholy Hugo Cornélius Toorop, who had a clear rule: “Never walk in the direction of the wind”.

We will miss a writer like Maurice Dantec. Europe needs more of them.