Homem Cristo Filho

Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo (5 March 1892 — 12 June 1928), better known as Homem Cristo Filho, was a Portuguese writer and journalist who advocated for monarchist and nationalist movements that later led him to Italian fascism, of which he was a fervent admirer, and to various forms of European nationalism. He founded and edited the magazine Ideia Nacional and the newspaper Restauração.

Biography Because he was the son of Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo, the owner of a newspaper publishing company in Aveiro, Homem Cristo Filho, as he was referred to, began working there. He later distinguished himself in Coimbra, where he founded the weekly newspaper A Verdade. At that time, he was a follower of anarchist ideas, even before the Establishment of the Republic, which forced him to flee to Brazil; after 1910, he joined the Monarchist Cause. He had been expelled from Portugal after participating in the failed , which forced him into exile in France, where he would go on to enjoy great prestige.

In 1914, Homem Cristo Filho founded the newspaper A Restauração and later the magazine A Ideia Nacional. He also published several works in French, such as Le Portugal contre l’Allemagne (1918), Le Cinema des Jours (1918), and Les Porte-Flambeaux (1920). On 9 February 1933, his remains were transferred to a monumental tomb, which had been built by the governor of Rome, by the orders of Mussolini.

He was the great-grandfather of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, one half of the former electronic music duo Daft Punk.