Despite a recent falling out that made headlines around the world, the former White House chief strategist repeatedly praised Donald Trump and spoke of “the everyman” in America who believes “the world is stacked against them”.

“The guy loves history,” the website Axios noted. “Well, this political suicide is historic. Bannon still thinks of himself as a revolutionary. That self-perception won’t change. It’s just that now he has no vehicle, no staff, no platform, and no major donors funding his ambitions.”

‘Mr Bannon has shot himself in the foot’

Gallimard sparked an outcry last week when it revealed it intended to publish a 1,000-page compendium of the controversial writer’s essays from the late 1930s.

“I am suspending the project, having judged that conditions were not right for ensuring a proper job in terms of methodology and history,”

Céline fled France after the D-day landings in Normandy in 1944 and was later convicted in his absence of collaborating with the Nazis.