Anonymous ID: 74b438 April 1, 2018, 7:48 p.m. No.865018   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5173

Jean Raspail - The Camp of the Saints

 

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>The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. The novel depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the West. Almost forty years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.

 

>Raspail has said his inspiration came while at the French Riviera in 1971, as he was looking out at the Mediterranean.

 

>What if they were to come? I did not know who "they" were, but it seemed inevitable to me that the numberless disinherited people of the South would, like a tidal wave, set sail one day for this opulent shore, our fortunate country’s wide-gaping frontier.

 

>The name of the book comes from a passage in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 20:7-9) depicting the apocalypse. Satan influences most of the nations of the Earth to gather for one final battle against "the camp of the saints," before being defeated for eternity:

 

>"And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them…"