Bernard, Jean-Louis

Jean-Louis Bernard (1918-1998) was a French novelist with a passion for the esoteric and ancient history, which can be deduced from this bibliography^(b).  He is the author of L’Atlantide des géants^[0143] in which he touches on the Canaries, Bimini, Crete and Mexico.

In 1978, before Richard Firestone, Bernard authored a science fiction dictionary, Les archives de l’insolite, in which,  he commented on a catastrophic period in the earth’s prehistory around 10,000 BC and was subsequently quoted by Michel-Alain Combes^(a).

“A series of catastrophes which took place around the year 9,000 or 10,000 before our era,which affected the whole planet, and about which Tradition and modern science are in agreement. Let’s list these cataclysms: in Europe, the end of the last ice age, maybe as a consequence of the shifting of the pole towards its present position in the North; in compensation, a drying up of the Sahara was started or accelerated; probable end of the archipelago of Atlantis; in East Africa, a sudden sur-elevation of mounds, and disappearance of an interior sea (at the sources of the Nile) and of an archipelago (Pount) in the Indian Ocean; possible sur-elevation of the Andes, with disappearance of archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean (and isolation of the famous Easter Island)…”

^(a) https://www.2008-paris-conference.org/mapage9/macombes-younger-dryas-event-1-xx.html.pdf

^(b) Jean-Louis Bernard (1918-1998) (bnf.fr)