Marion Maréchal (granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen) is seen as a future leader of French nationalism. She is also a committed Zionist and a long-term Putinist (though she has recently been forced to moderate the latter stance, at least in public). And she is the daughter of a Mossad agent.
Her father Roger Auque (who died in 2014) had a brief affair in the spring of 1989 with Yann Le Pen, daughter of the Front National‘s founder, who after having their child went on to marry Samuel Maréchal, then head of the FN’s youth wing.
Samuel Maréchal brought up Marion as his daughter, but her real father was the Mossad agent and journalist Roger Auque, who during Marion’s infancy travelled around the Middle East on behalf of Israeli intelligence.
During the late 1980s and 1990s there was another Mossad agent with close ties to the leadership of the Front National. This was Pierre Ceyrac, who was elected as an FN member of the National Assembly in 1986 and as a Member of the European Parliament in 1989.
Ceyrac was the central figure in attempts (encouraged by Mossad) during 1987 to forge an alliance between Le Pen and mainstream conservatives close to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan.
The other main operative in this plan was Sir Alfred Sherman, a London-born son of Russian Jewish immigrants, who had been a senior adviser to the Prime Minister and was regarded as the “intellectual godfather of Thatcherism.”
It was Sherman who attempted to organise an invitation for Jean-Marie Le Pen to address a fringe meeting at the 1987 Conservative Party Conference. This was aborted, but Mossad’s man inside Le Pen’s party, Pierre Ceyrac, did later speak at a Tory conference fringe meeting in 1989 organised by Western Goals (UK), a group whose directorate included Sherman’s son Gideon.
Alfred Sherman was a teenage communist who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, before serving with British military intelligence in the Middle East from 1939-45. Soon after the creation of Israel in 1948, he was expelled from the Communist Party and for a while worked with fellow dissident, pro-Zionist Marxists in factions loyal to the Yugoslav dictator Tito.
During the 1950s Sherman moved to Israel and became an adviser to its Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. After returning to the UK he completed his political journey by joining the Conservative Party and co-founding the ‘free-market’ Centre for Policy Studies, along with Margaret Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph, in 1974.
As previously revealed on this site, Sir Keith Joseph (Sherman’s closest political ally and a fellow intellectual guru of Thatcherism) was investigated by the UK security service MI5 because of apparent links to the nascent Israeli intelligence service in 1948.
Pierre Ceyrac – the main Mossad agent inside Le Pen’s party – officially left the FN in 1994, but his continuing connections to French nationalism became obvious in January 2017 when he was photographed at dinner with Marine Le Pen and her then-partner Louis Aliot (who is now Mayor of Perpignan and Vice-President of Le Pen’s party).
Also present at the dinner (held at Trump Tower in New York) was Guido Lombardi, a friend of former President Trump and the main American networker for a range of ‘kosher nationalists’ from Europe, including the Dutch anti-Islamist Geert Wilders and the former AfD leader Frauke Petry.
Pierre Ceyrac died in 2018, but it seems that Mossad’s long-term investment in the Le Pen dynasty has begun to pay off. Last week Marine Le Pen and her party president Jordan Bardella gave strong support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he prepares a genocidal onslaught on Gaza.
Marion Maréchal similarly insisted that “France must stand unambiguously alongside Israel in this new ordeal”.
At next year’s European elections, Maréchal will head the list of candidates for the Reconquête! party led by Jewish journalist Éric Zemmour, who stood unsuccessfully for the French presidency against Marine Le Pen in 2022.
Many factions of French ‘nationalism’ have for years had close ties to the Kremlin, but were forced by public opinion to abandon their Putinism in order to retain political credibility. Maréchal and Zemmour seem not to have moved as far and as quickly as Marine Le Pen in distancing themselves from Russia.
Zemmour has for years been one of Putin’s cheerleaders, writing in 2018: “I dream of a French Putin emerging.” Perhaps even at 65 he still sees himself in that role?
As for Maréchal, she took a few years away from frontline politics to create a ‘right-wing’ university, ISSEP, with numerous connections to Putin’s Russia, which she promoted during a visit to St Petersburg in 2019. These connections suffered a setback when one of ISSEP’s Russian staff, St Petersburg history professor Oleg Sokolov, confessed to murdering and decapitating his mistress.
There can be little doubt which party Vladimir Putin (if he has not been defeated and deposed by then) will be supporting in France at next year’s European elections. But who will Mossad (employers of both Marion Maréchal’s father and one of Le Pen’s former MEPs) be supporting? Perhaps they will back more than one horse, in line with their infamous motto, adapted from the Old Testament’s Book of Proverbs: “In cunning and trickery you shall wage war”. Or in the alternative translation by former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky: “By way of deception”.
