[5][6] Jean-Michel Parasiliti was a French military veteran who served in the Algerian War, being awarded the Combatant's Cross, the North Africa Medal, and the North Africa Security and Order Operations Commemorative Medal, with Algeria bar, among others.

After his career in the military he turned to social work, specializing in the care of children and adults with intellectual disabilities.

The Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia is an unrecognised state associated with the Mapuche people, of which there are approximately 1.5 million in Chile and 200,000 in Argentina.

[16] There does appear, however, to be increasing recognition of the role in defending Mapuche rights assumed by this "strange symbolic monarchy.

"[17][18] It has been reported that "the intensification of the Mapuche conflict in recent years has given a new purpose to the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia, long considered an absurdity by French society.