Christian Bouchet
After declaring that he had broken with his former activism, he joined the Front National in 2008 and became a local branch leader from October 2010 to May 2011 and from March 2013 onwards.[8] In the original edition of his book Hitler's Priestess, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote that Bouchet has been associated with Nazi mysticism and that, whilst spending a year in India, he met Savitri Devi to study Kali Yuga and her ideas about Adolf Hitler as an Avatar.[10] In the postscript to the book Le national-socialisme et la tradition indienne, Bouchet claimed that Goodrick-Clarkes's allegations were false, that he had met Savitri Devi only once and considered her to be a crank, and that he has no personal interest in Nazi mysticism.[11] Bouchet, who claims he is not an Islamophobe, has advocated a closer link between European nationalist groups and Muslim traditionalists.[12] Christian Bouchet wrote a doctoral thesis in anthropology in the University Paris Diderot on Aleister Crowley and has written many books about extremist involvement in politics and religion.