France proves that a post-Christian right will not be the ultimate cure for the right problems.
The situation of the French right illustrates why those who fixate on blaming Christianity and the long-dead Christian values for the ills of the right and our societies, and advocate a post-Christian or neopagan right as a solution to our problems, are mistaken.
The post-Christian, neopagan, or New Right has existed in France since the 1960s. However, she was not only able to stop the primacy of the left in the elite circles after May 68, but also to take control of the right itself. The Marine Le Pen party, just like the Gaullist before it, chose to maintain a selective and limited relationship with the novel, the identity right and other organizations with the same content, despite the prestige and popularity these ideas gained during the "culture war" against the left.
The French New Right, or New Right, centered on the ethnonationalist think tank GRECE, was founded by Alain de Benoist, Dominique Wenner, Guillaume Pay, Pierre Viel and other right-wingers who came out of the nationalist agitation left behind by the right before the war. The movement was formed in 1968, the same year with the famous left-wing demonstrations against the Gaullist regime. They soon created a large intellectual movement that reached the highest levels of the French cultural elite.
Her friends and associates taught at universities, joined the French Academy and received prestigious awards for their essays. Alain de Benoist himself won the 1978 French Academy Award. They have written best-selling books on European history and civilization, won the favor of billionaires and media moguls, appeared on influential intellectual television programs and held senior editorial positions in major French publications.