TIBERGE at Galliawatch recently posted an interview with the journalist Eric Zemmour who has spoken out against the Islamization of France and globalism in his book Le suicide francais. He was recently fired from his television job for answering favorably in the interview when the idea of deportation of Muslims was brought up. Having not read the book, I do not know how Zemmour addresses the issue of the low birthrate of the French, a major factor in the rise of foreign immigration. Does he believe mere nationalism could ever induce the French to have children?

Tiberge also posted this photo of Charles de Gaulle receiving children at the Élysée Palace in 1964. She contrasted it with a recent photo of François Hollande, surrounded by African children.

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Rollory writes:

“I do not know how Zemmour addresses the issue of the low birthrate of the French, a major factor in the rise of foreign immigration”

Since you made it up, he doesn’t need to address it. France is not Germany, nor Greece; the birthrate has held steady around two children per woman for a while now, and to the extent immigration is related, it is a cause of depressing the birthrate, by making it harder for the native French to support themselves.

Every single adult on the French side of my family has two to three children. They are all, by the way, cultural Catholics; precisely the sort who find religious literalism faintly silly. Both of these characteristics are part of a family pattern that has held true for several generations now, and seems thus far to be continuing with the youngest generation – for them, marriage is sort of a formality one applies after establishing the pair-bond, a matter of paperwork and tradition; the seriousness of the pair-bond is (from their behavior) inherent in itself, not in the ceremonies surrounding it. There’s been exactly one divorce, decades ago.

There have been no extraracial relationships.

Laura writes:

Thank you for the fraternal correction, but no, I didn’t make it up.

France has experienced varying levels of demographic collapse since the Revolution.

France would have roughly the same population as the United States today (that would be French people, not Arabs and Africans) if its 18th century fertility levels had been maintained. During the Middle Ages, one quarter of Europe’s population was French and in the 1700s, it was one fifth.

From Wikipedia:

The French population only grew by 8.6% between 1871 and 1911, while Germany’s grew by 60% and Britain’s by 54%.[10] Ferdinand Foch joked that the only way for France to permanently improve its relationship with Germany was to castrate 20 million Germans.[11] If the population of France had grown between 1815 and 2000 at the same rate as that of Germany during the same time period, France’s population would be 110 million today despite the very substantial emigration from Germany to the Americas, and Germany’s larger military and civilian losses during the World Wars than France. If France’s population had grown at the same rate as that of England and Wales (which was also siphoned off by emigration to the Americas, Australia and New Zealand), France’s population could be anywhere up to 150 million today. And if one starts the comparison at the time of King Louis XIV (the Sun King), then France would now have the same population as the United States. While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time of Louis XIV or Napoleon, the country lost this advantage due to its relative demographic decline after 1800.

Here is a former post with statistics about fertility declines in France during the 20th century. In recent years, the Medal of the French Family, which goes to mothers of large families, has gone largely to Muslim women. The fertility rate in France is much higher for women born outside France. The latest Total Fertility Rate for France is below replacement level. Your extended family, which is composed of historically small families, unfortunately will not stem the tide.

You say your relatives are “cultural Catholics.” That’s a clever way of saying they are not Catholic but they cling in some ways to the culture created by Catholics. The belief in the sacredness of marriage and procreation is fundamental to the Catholic religion. Your family may have few “divorces,” but in France as a whole divorce increased dramatically during the 20th century. In 1966, the divorce rate in France was 10.8 percent; in 2010 it was 53.2 percent. I realize many don’t marry at all. In 1966, the out-of-wedlock birth ratio in France was 6.0 percent; in 2010, it was 54.1 percent.

In light of the vast changes France has undergone, the Catholic objection to contraception does not seem “faintly silly,” but a matter of national survival. The French once possessed a deeper awareness of the miracle of human life and the immortality of the soul. They were not the sort of over-intellectualized barbarians who think of creating human beings as “religious literalism.”

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