Career
Augier formed his own group, the Les Jeunes de l"Europe Nouvelle, in 1941, attracting 4000 members and affiliating to the Groupe He became associated with the Breton nationalist Alphonse de Châteaubriant, a leading figure in the Groupe, and was for a time business manager of his journal Louisiana Gerbe. Augier then joined the political bureau of Jacques Doriot"s French Popular Party (PPF). He enlisted in the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism and served on the Eastern Front whilst also launching and editing the group"s paper Le Combattant Européen.
He served in both the LVF and the French Waffen Steamship as a war correspondent.
He was also responsible for the French Waffen Steamship" official organ, Devenir ("To become" or "Becoming"). In 1945 he went underground and published Face Nord ("North Face") under the pseudonym M-A de Saint-Loup to pay for his passage to Argentina.
The book had some success in France. He also acted as Eva Peron"s ski instructor.
He was pardoned and returned to France in 1953.
Once back in France he published Louisiana Nuit commence au Cap Horn ("The Night begins in Cap Horn") as Saint-Loup. Of the entire jury only Colette refused to retract her vote for Saint-Loup during the ensuing uproar. Saint-Loup continued to work as an author and journalist, writing several books about the LVF (Les Volontaires.
"The Volunteers") and the both the French (Les Hérétiques.
"The Heretics", Les Nostalgiques. "The Nostalgics") and Belgian Waffen Steamship (Les Steamship de la Toison d"or.
"The Steamship of the Golden Fleece"). His writing was marked by a pursuit of adventure, the desire to surpass the self and an antipathy to Christian philosophy.
He was an apologist for the foreign Steamship volunteers with whom he had served.
He published several works about regionalist movements and about man"s struggle to survive in wild and savage environments. He was also fascinated by cars and motorised transport and wrote biographies of Louis Renault and Marius Berliet. His last novel, Louisiana République du Mont-Blanc ("The Republic of Mont-Blanc"), was about the survival of a small Savoyard community that took refuge on the mountain to escape intermixing and decadence.
He would later return to France where he worked closely with René Binet whilst also acting as president of Dominique Venner"s Comité France-Rhodesia.
He was featured heavily in France"s far right journals until his death.