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The journalist François Krug retraces in an investigation the companionship of the three writers with the intellectual far right over the past thirty years. A complacency which, out of curiosity, aesthetic fascination or ideological sympathy, has allowed racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic obsessions to come out of the “margins”.
On March 22, the film adaptation of Sylvain Tesson’s autobiographical story was released in theaters, On the dark paths (Gallimard 2016), with Jean Dujardin in the leading role. A popular actor in the shoes of an author who is just as popular. In this book published in 2016, the most famous of French “travel writers” recounts his reconstruction, thanks to his crossing of France on foot, after his terrible fall from the roof of a chalet in Chamonix: more than 230,000 copies sold. before its release. Each of his crossings in distant lands meets with significant critical and public success. The Snow Panther (Gallimard, 2019), its Renaudot prize, has sold more than 700,000 copies (all collections combined) and has also been adapted for the big screen. Film buffs may not know it, but Sylvain Tesson is not just an adventurer who loves bivouacs and long walks in the high plateaus of Tibet.
When he puts his suitcases in Paris, the adventurer maintains close relations with the intellectual extreme right. As in 2018, when he received in his duplex with a view of Notre-Dame three representatives of the New Right and