Born on 22 April 1954[1] in the
14th arrondissement of Paris, Alain Guionnet received a bachelor's degree in economical and social administration[2] and master's degrees in history and
Hungarian.
Activism
According to
Christophe Bourseiller, during Guionnet's youth, he led a far-left group called Oser lutter, oser vaincre ("Dare to struggle, dare to beat"), based in
Issy-les-Moulineaux.[3] Together with
Pierre Guillaume, he also founded and contributed to the leftist newspaper La Guerre sociale.[2] He wrote a "Letter to
Guy Debord" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).[4]
After having collaborated on a revisionist magazine,[6][7][8] in 1989 he founded his own, titled Revision,[9] which publishes anti-Masonic[10] and antisemitic articles and texts[11] including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and some articles by
Robert Faurisson. The ninth volume reprinted
Élie Reclus's article against circumcision. In the same time, he founded the Association contre la mutilation des enfants (A.M.E.), together with Xavier Valla. Michel Erlich, a psychiatrist, categorized Revision as "[a vehicle of] delirious antiSemitism";[12] Guionnet hawked his magazine at
Front National conventions.[13] He published Revision until 2009.[14]
Guionnet was sentenced to jail several times (in 1991, 1993 and 1994) for violations of the
Gayssot Act, i.e., denying the Holocaust.[15] He was also sentenced for defamation toward
Pierre Vidal-Naquet.[16]
Books
Guionnet has written three books published under various pseudonyms:
"Jacques Moulin", Le Mode de production des hommes-plantes (The Mode of Production of Plantmen), Issy-les-Moulineaux, A. Guionnet, 1980, 177 p. (
BnF366012528)
"L'Aigle noir", Josef Kramer contre Josef Kramer : mémoire en défense (Joseph Kramer Against Josef Kramer: Defence), Paris, Polémiques, 1988, 151 p. (
BnF36626799x)
"Attila Lemage", Manifeste antijuif : du 10e siècle avant notre ère à nos jours, le combat des Titans (Anti-Semitic Manifesto: from the 10th century BC to nowadays, Titans' fight), Issy-les-Moulineaux and Paris, Libre parole and A. Lemage, 1991, 73 p. (
BnF35476667k).
^Shapiro, Shelly: Truth prevails: demolishing holocaust denial: The end of "The Leuchter Report", The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation and Holocaust Survivors & Friends in Pursuit of Justice, 1990, p. 35
^Vidal-Naquet, Pierre: Holocaust denial in France: analysis of a unique phenomenon, Tel Aviv Univ., 1995, p. 55, 69, 70
^Igounet, Valérie, Histoire du négationnisme en France, Paris, 2000, p. 401, 548-560