The Club de l'Horloge is a French far-right association founded in 1974. Close to the Nouvelle Droite

Nouvelle Droite

Nouvelle Droite is a school of political thought founded largely on the works of Alain de Benoist and GRECE .-Etymology and history:...

movement, the club centers itself around the values of "liberalism, nationalism and democracy." Its president is Henry de Lesquen

Henry de Lesquen

Henry de Lesquen is a French politician. He is the president of the Club de l'Horloge, a conservative think tank....

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History

The Club de l'Horloge was founded by far-right members Henry de Lesquen

Henry de Lesquen

Henry de Lesquen is a French politician. He is the president of the Club de l'Horloge, a conservative think tank....

, Jean-Yves Le Gallou

Jean-Yves Le Gallou

Jean-Yves Le Gallou is a leading French far right politician, member of the European Parliament since the 1994 election.- Career :...

 and GRECE member Yvan Blot

Yvan Blot

Yvan Blot is a French [conservative] political figure who has been a member of GRECE as well as the founder and president of the Club de l'Horloge....

. The Club de l'Horloge and the related GRECE, founded by Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist is a French academic, philosopher, a founder of the Nouvelle Droite and head of the French think tank GRECE. Benoist is a critic of liberalism, free markets and egalitarianism.-Biography:...

, would later clash, although both remained staunchly anti-egalitarian. The Club de l'Horloge is supportive of uniting the French nationalist forces in one political movement.

Lysenko prize

Since 1990, the Club de l'Horloge awards each year the "Lyssenko award

Trofim Lysenko

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist of Ukrainian origin, who was director of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and adopted them into a powerful...

" to an author or person who "has contributed the most to scientific and historical misinformation, using ideological methods and arguments." Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a Franco-German politician, active in both countries. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and he was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge...

 won the prize in 2002 "for his exceptional contribution to the euro campaign," the late John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...

 in 1994 for "his defense of the minimum wage

Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers. Equivalently, it is the lowest wage at which workers may sell their labour. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in a great many jurisdictions, there are differences of opinion about...

 and socialist fight against unemployment

Unemployment

Unemployment , as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks...

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