Jean Mabire
Jean Pol Yves Jacques Mabire was born in Paris on 8 February 1927,[1] to a bourgeois family originally from Vire, Normandy.[2] In 1949, at the age of 22, Mabire created the regionalist magazine Viking and in 1951 left Paris to settle in Cherbourg, Normandy, where he founded a graphic arts workshop.[5] Between 1963 and 1965, he wrote articles in Philippe Héduy's L'Esprit public, and was a contributor in Cahiers universitaires, the magazine of the Federation of Nationalist Students (FEN).[8] His shift towards the radical right was confirmed in many articles Mabire published in Le Spectacle du Monde, Valeurs Actuelles or Minute.[2][6] In 1968, Mabire became a founding member of the Mouvement Normand,[9] and the following year he helped Georges Bernage establish Heimdal, a regionalist magazine and intellectual successor of Viking.