F.s father was French and his mother was Scottish. As a boy and young man, he attended schools in Singapore, Japan, and in France. He was educated at a Lycée in Paris, and at the Sorbonne. He received his "State Doctorate" in letters and the humanities from the Sorbonne in 1972, where he also taught from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 until 1990, Faurisson was a professor of French literature at the University of Lyon II. He is a recognized specialist of text and document analysis, and is the author of four books on French literature. In 1991, Faurisson was removed from his university chair.

Faurisson has said that he had anti-German sentiments during and immediately following World War II, but after reading the works of Paul Rassinier and Maurice Bardèche, he began to question the Holocaust. Over the years he studied the Holocaust extensively, coming in the late 1970s to the conclusion that it was a hoax. In the archives of the Auschwitz State Museum in Poland, Faurisson discovered the technical and architectural drawings of the Auschwitz morgues, the crematories and other installations. 

Since 1978, Faurisson has presented his view of the Holocaust extermination story in numerous articles and interviews, and in several books. A four-volume collection of many of his writings, Écrits Révisionnistes (1974-1998), was published in 1999. Faurisson played an important role in both the 1985 and 1988 “Holocaust trials” in Toronto of Ernst Zundel, preparing questions used by defense attorney Doug Christie in his interrogations of Raul Hilberg, Rudolf Vrba and other prosecution witnesses. Faurisson summarized the result of his research in one sentence:

“The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people."

On 11 December 2006, Faurisson gave a speech at the International Conference in Tehran to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, which was sponsored by the government of Iran. He said that in the past 32 years he had been waiting for someone to show him one of those chambers.

Faurisson was frequently brought to trial:  In July 1981 he was found guilty and given a suspended three month prison sentence, and ordered to pay 3.6 million francs. In June 1995 a Paris court ordered Faurisson to pay a fine of $3,000. On September 25, 1997, a Paris court handed down a guilty verdict, and on October 23, 1997, it ordered Faurisson to pay 120,600 francs. In December 1997 and in March 1998, Faurisson received a new summons from a Paris court. On April 8, 1998 Faurisson was set to stand trial in Amsterdam for the publication in 1991 in Dutch of his detailed critical analysis of the Anne Frank Diary. On October 3, 2006, a Paris court found Faurisson guilty for having said, during an interview with Iranian television, that “there was never” a single execution gas chamber used by the Germans during World War II. Faurisson received a suspended prison sentence of three months, and had to pay 7,500 Euros. 

Between November 1978 and May 1993 Faurisson was a victim of ten physical assaults, nine of them carried out by Jewish thugs. The most savage was a nearly fatal attack on September 16, 1989, for which a group calling itself "The Sons of the Memory of the Jews" claimed responsibility. 

Werke von / Works of F.: 
F. has published seven main works: three on literary revisionism and four on historical revisionism. In his "Écrits révisionnistes (1974-1998)" in four volumes (2nd edition, LV-2027 p.), he collected more than 2000 pages of articles, studies and reviews, intending to demonstrate how the character of the official history ist getting more and more religious and repressive, receding in the field of common sense step by step before the arguments and findings of historical revisionism, which was inaugurated in France by Paul Rassinier, author of "Le mensonge d'Ulisse" (1950). , 

F.s works are also published in the "Journal of Historical Review", "CODOH's Archive", and elsewhere. Distribution and rendering accessible of most of F.s publications is forbidden in Austria (article 3h Verbotsgesetz 1947), Belgium (Belgian Negationism Law), the Czech Republic (under section 261), France (Loi Gayssot), Germany (§ 130-3 of the penal code), Italy ( law against racial and sexual discrimination of January 25, 2007), Lithuania, The Netherlands (under articles 137c and 137e), Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland (article 261bis of the Penal Code).
 
Literatur über / Writings concerning F.: 
Festschrift for Robert Faurisson on the occasion of his 75th anniversairy:
Biography:
Robert Faurisson, wie man ihn nicht kennt:
Le Blog Inofficiel / The Inofficial Blog

Literatur von und über Robert Faurisson im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek / Writings of and about Robert Faurisson in the catalogue of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek 
* Réponse à Jean-Claude Pressac, Faurisson, Robert. - Colombes : RHR, 1994, 2. éd. 
* Historische Wahrheit oder politische Wahrheit? Thion, Serge. - Berlin : Verl. der Freunde, 1994 
* Die Affäre Faurisson, Faurisson, Robert. - Aalborg SÖ : Nordland-Forlag, 1991 
* Het "Dagboek" van Anne Frank, Faurisson, Robert. - Antwerpen : Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, 1991 
* Het tweede Leuchter rapport, Leuchter, Fred A.. - Antwerpen : Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, 1991 
* Robert Faurisson in gesprek met Storia Illustrata, Antwerpen : Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, 1990 
* Réponse à Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Faurisson, Robert. - Paris : Vieille Taupe, 1982, 2e éd. augm. 
* Ich suchte - und fand die Wahrheit, Faurisson, Robert. - Mohrkirch : Kritik-Verlag, 1982. 

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