[2][3][4] Blot founded in the Cercle Pareto, a Sciences Po student organization linked to the Nouvelle Droite, and was soon joined by Jean-Yves Le Gallou, Daniel Garrigue and Guillaume Faye.

[6][5] A former Gaullist parliamentarian (for Rally for the Republic), Blot also served as a leading civil servant under both Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski and Alain Devaquet.

[8] A prominent Eurosceptic, Blot played a leading role in establishing a committee to support the Bruges Group in France.

[citation needed] He was a member of the French Catholic Academy[12] and a consultant for the radio station "Voice of Russia" in Paris.

[13] He worked for the think tank Idexia with Charles Beigbeder and Guillaume Peltier, a group favouring the return of the former president Nicolas Sarkozy to power.