Jean-Pierre Dickès
Jean-Pierre Dickès (1942 – 28 August 2020) was a French doctor, historian, editor, essayist, and Catholic missionary. He was co-founder of the Centre médico-chirurgical et obstétrique in Côte d'Opale and founder of the humanitarian association Rosa Mystica. He published multiple essays on bioethics and transhumanism, to which he was fervently opposed. Biography Dickès was born during the German Occupation of France in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1942. He was the son of French Resistance fighters Nicolas Dickès and Françoise Dickès-Mahieu. In 1958, Jean-Pierre joined his brother in the Algerian War and saw the return of Charles de Gaulle. He passed his baccalaureate at the age of 16, and entered the Faculty of Medicine of Lille. There, he met the members of Action Française, which he would join in the 1960s. In 1972, he joined the Society of Saint Pius X and participated in the foundation of the parish Saint-Louis de Boulogne-sur-Mer. Dickès was President of the Société académique du Boulonnais, a learned society and publishing house specializing in the history of Boulonnais. Under his presidency, which lasted from 1985 to 2018, nearly 60 books were published. Many of his works on the historical and linguistic culture of the region were published by