Jean Arfel (14 June 1920 – 31 July 2013), better known by his pen name Jean Madiran (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ madiʁɑ̃] ⓘ), was a French right-wing editor, journalist and a traditionalist Catholic writer who was born in Libourne.
During the German occupation of France, Madiran was the private secretary of Charles Maurras[2] and was awarded the Order of the Francisque, the decoration, in the form of a stylised double-headed francisca, that was granted by Vichy France.
[3] After the war, he was a professor of philosophy at the Ecole des Roches, a position he left in 1950 to devote himself to journalism and writing in Paris.
In March 1956, he launched the traditional Catholic monthly Itinéraires which he would edit for the next forty years.
In 1982, he co-founded the right-wing daily "Présent" which would continue publication until June 2022.