# Léon de Poncins

Viscount Léon de Poncins (3 November 1897 – 18 December 1975) was a French aristocrat and a traditional Catholic journalist and essayist. He authored numerous books and articles critiquing Judaism and Freemasonry.
Léon de Poncins' explanation for most of the major revolutionary political upheavals of modernity was the influence of certain secret societies with an anti-Christian agenda — as well as an "occult war" waged by those possessing a diabolical kind of "faith".

## Biography

Born Gabriel Léon Marie Pierre de Montaigne de Poncins in Civens, Loire. He was descended of an aristocratic family ennobled in 1696.
His writings enjoyed some prominence in the 1930s (many of his works were translated into English, Italian, German, and Spanish). Léon de Poncins contributed to many newspapers like Le Jour, Le Figaro, L'Ami du peuple, and Le Nouvelliste; he also directed the journal Contre-Révolution (Counter-Revolution) from 1937 to 1939.
Léon de Poncins was a devout Catholic and counter-revolutionary. His writings criticised Judaism, Communism and Freemasonry. Until his death, in Toulon, he denounced the occult forces and organizations that ruled the world and sought to poison Catholicism.

## Views
### Influence of secret societies

In his writings, he denounced Masonic conspiracies (pointing out the relationship between Freemasonry and the French Revolution, the League of Nations, etc.), and the Jewish influence in Catholic affairs.
His work was seen as a continuation of the Revue Internationale des Sociétés Secrètes (International Review of Secret Societies), whose primary editor was Mgr. Ernest Jouin (1844–1932).
Léon de Poncins was a friend of Emmanuel Malynski (died 1938)— with whom he wrote La Guerre occulte (The Occult War)— and Jean Vaquié (1911–1992), with whom he wrote in the journals Lectures françaises and Lecture et Tradition, and for the Chiré-en-Montreuil-based publishing house Éditions de Chiré. Léon de Poncins wrote the preface to Vaquié's La Révolution Liturgique ([The Liturgical Revolution]).
Julius Evola translated La Guerre occulte into Italian.
In a 1949 letter from René Guenon to Evola, he expresses a belief that Léon de Poncins was subjected to attacks from "a group of dangerous sorcerers" who were connected to his secretary, Eve Louguet.

### On World War I

In his historical analysis of the First World War, Léon de Poncins suggests that concerted lobbying by international Zionist circles led to the creation of the future Jewish state in Palestine by means of manipulating alliances and oppositions between countries. In 1916— at a time when Germany triumphed on all fronts and the British planned to sign an armistice then advanced by the Kaiser— Zionists secured a promise of Palestine (then under the domination of the Ottoman Empire) as a Jewish settlement from the government of Britain in exchange for the United States' entry into the war alongside the Triple Entente. To corroborate his thesis, Léon de Poncins cited Great Britain, The Jews and Palestine, a 1936 book by pro-Zionist author, Samuel Landman.

### On Vatican II

During the Second Vatican Council, following the vote on 20 November 1964, at the third session of the provisional scheme dealing with the Church's attitude towards Judaism, Léon de Poncins wrote a pamphlet, Le Problème juif face au Concile (The Jewish Question Facing the Council), which was distributed to the bishops before the fourth and final session. The author noted "by the Council Fathers a profound misunderstanding of what constitutes the essence of Judaism." Léon de Poncins' advice had a significant effect on the drafting of Nostra aetate, adopted on 28 October 1965.

## Works

| Year | Title | Translated title | Publishing notes | ISBN |
| 1928 | Les Forces secrètes de la Révolution | The Secret Powers Behind Revolution: Freemasonry and Judaism | Bossard. Second revised and expanded edition, 1929. Boswell (London; English translation), 1929. Reprinted by Christian Book Club of America (Hawthorne, CA), 1969, 1980, 1988, and 1996. Bloomfield Books (Sudbury, Suffolk), 1989. Published as Freemasonry & Judaism: Secret Powers Behind Revolution by A & B Books Publishers (Brooklyn, NY), 1994. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi, 2005. | ISBN 2845194870 |
| 1931 | Refusé par la presse | [Rejected by the Press] | Éditions de la Revue française. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845194307 |
| 1932 | La Franc-maçonnerie, puissance occulte | [Freemasonry: Secret Power] | Bossard. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi, 2005 | ISBN 2845194986 |
| 1932 | Les Juifs, maîtres du monde | [The Jews: Masters of the World] | Bossard. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi, 2005 | ISBN 2845194854 |
| 1934 | Tempête sur le monde, ou La Faillite du progrès | [Storm on the World, or the Bankruptcy of Progress] | Beauchesne. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi, 2005 | ISBN 284519482X |
| 1934 | La Dictature des puissances occultes, La Franc-maçonnerie d'après ses documents secrets | [The Dictatorship of Occult Powers: Freemasonry from its Secret Documents | Beauchesne et Fils éditeurs. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi (with the title La Dictature des Puissances Occultes — La F∴M∴ ([The Dictatorship of Occult Powers— The F∴M∴]), . Second edition by Beauchesne et Fils éditeurs, 1936. Third edition by Beauchesne et Fils éditeurs, 1942. Fourth edition by Diffusion de la Pensée Française, 1972. Fifth edition by Diffusion de la Pensée Française, 1975. Sixth edition by Éditions de Chiré, 2014 (revised and updated from the 1972 edition) | ISBN 2-84519-948-1 |
| 1936 | Le Portugal renaît | [Portugal Reborn] | Beauchesne et Fils éditeurs. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi, 2005 | ISBN 2845194935 |
| 1936 | Société des Nations, super État maçonnique | [The League of Nations: Super Masonic State] | Beauchesne. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845194846 |
| 1936 | La Mystérieuse internationale juive | [The Mysterious International Jew] | Beauchesne. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845195699 |
| 1936 | La Guerre occulte (with Emmanuel Malynski) | The Occult War | Beauchesne. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi. English translation published by Logik, 2015. | ISBN 2845194978 ISBN 9187339358 |
| 1937 | Histoire secrète de la révolution espagnole | [The Secret History of the Spanish Revolution] | Beauchesne et Fils éditeurs. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845194897 |
| 1939 | Le Plan communiste d'insurrection armée | [The Communist Plan for Armed Insurrection] | Mercure de France. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845194943 |
| 1939 | La liberté de la presse et la question juive. Les décrets-loi Marchandeau | [Freedom of the Press and the Jewish Question: The decree-law Marchandeau] | Contre-Révolution | |
| 1941 | La Franc-Maçonnerie contre la France | [Freemasonry Against France] | Beauchesne. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2-84519-496-X |
| 1942 | Israël, destructeur d'empires | [Israel: Destroyer of Empires] | Mercure de France. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi, 2005 | ISBN 2845194927 |
| 1942 | L'Énigme communiste | [The Communist Enigma] | Beauchesne et Fils éditeurs | |
| 1943 | Forces occultes | [Occult Forces] | Édition de la Légion Française des Combattants et des Volontaires de la Révolution nationale | |
| 1943 | Les Forces occultes dans le monde moderne | [Occult Forces in the Modern World] | Mercure de France. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845194889 |
| 1961 | Espions soviétiques dans le monde | [Soviet Spies in the World] | Nouvelles Éditions Latines. Reprinted by Éditions Saint-Remi, 2005 | ISBN 2845194838 |
| 1965 | Le Problème juif face au Concile (pamphlet) | The Jewish Question Facing the Council | Britons Publishing Company (London; printed in France) | |
| 1967 | Le Judaïsme et le Vatican. Une tentative de subversion spirituelle? | Judaism and the Vatican: An Attempt at Spiritual Subversion | Britons Publishing Company (London; translated from the French by Timothy Tindal-Robertson); Omni Publications (Hawthorne, CA), 1990. Liberty Bell Publications (Reedy, WV), 1990s. Éditions Saint-Remi (translated back into French), 2000. A&B Publishers Group (Brooklyn, NY), 1994 and 2000. Christian Book Club of America (Palmdale, CA), 2004. LITOO, 2007 | ISBN 2845190654 ISBN 2755302593 |
| 1968 | | Freemasonry and the Vatican: A Struggle for Recognition | Britons Publishing Company (London; translated from the French manuscript by Timothy Tindal-Robertson). A&B Publishers Group (Brooklyn, NY), 1994 and 2000. Texte en ligne, Éditions Saint-Remi, 2000. | ISBN 1881316912 |
| 1969 | Christianisme et Franc-maçonnerie | [Christianity and Freemasonry] | L'Ordre Français. Second edition by Diffusion de la Pensée Française, 1975. Third edition by Éditions de Chiré, 2010 | |
| 1970 | Infiltrations ennemies dans l'Église (with Edith Delamare) | [Enemy Infiltration in the Church] | La librairie française | |
| 1972 | Top Secret: Secrets d'état anglo-américains | State Secrets: A Documentation of the Secret Revolutionary Mainspring Governing Anglo-American Politics | Diffusion de la Pensée Française (Vouillé). Britons Publishing Company (Chulmleigh), 1975. Sons of Liberty (Metairie, LA), 1977. Liberty Bell Publications (Reedy, WV), 1977 | |
| 1973 | Histoire du communisme, de 1917 à la deuxième guerre mondiale | [History of Communism from 1917 to World War II] | Diffusion de la Pensée Française (magazine reissue of L'énigme communiste parue from 1942) | |
| | Les Documents Morgenthau | [The Morgenthau Documents] | Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845194900 |
| | Le Communisme contre la France | [Communism Against France] | Éditions Saint-Remi | ISBN 2845194951 |
| 2014 | Les Juifs et le Concile Vatican II | [The Jews and the Second Vatican Council] | Éditions Kontre Kulture (Saint-Denis) | ISBN 236725057X |