lecturer Jean Houbert: the reclusive life of a political prophet
Updated: July 11, 2021, 9:38 am © Supplied They don’t come more paradoxical than Dr Marie Joseph Jean Houbert. Born to sugar plantation-owning French aristocrats of Indian Ocean island Mauritius, he would choose instead to live his days as a recluse by the North Sea in Bridge of Don. A political futurist, he predicted the fall of ‘Fortress Europe’ via Middle-Eastern and African migration decades before it ever looked likely, yet lived without modern conveniences, having never owned a microwave oven. Dr Houbert. A private person by choice most of the time, he went for curries with peers...
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