Jacques Trémollet de Villers

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Jacques Trémolet de Villers is a French lawyer, president of the Catholic fundamentalist group La Cité Catholique since the 1980s and monarchist activist in the Restauration nationale movement.

He was a collaborator of the far-right politician Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour. In 1974 he founded his law cabinet, where he took in charge some famous affairs such as the inheritance issues of Emilien Amaury, the founder of the media group Amaury-Le Parisien. He also assured the affair of Philippe de Dieuleveult's disappearance, the defense of Jean-Charles Marchiani, as well of the mayor Pierre Bernard and that of the war criminal Paul Touvier.

He is also a member of the Cercle de l'Oeillet blanc, headed for a long time by Guy Coutant de Saisseval, and of the association Gens de France. Trémolet de Villers also support Jean d'Orléans, the monarchist candidate to the French throne.