| Alexis Arette | |
| Birth Date: | 1927 6, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Momas, France |
| Death Place: | Aressy, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Farmer Writer |
| Party: | FN |
| Office: | Member of the Regional Council of Aquitaine |
| Term Start: | 1986 |
| Term End: | 1998 |
| Office2: | President of the Fédération française de l’agriculture |
| Term Start2: | 1982 |
| Term End2: | 1991 |
| Predecessor2: | Gildas Ezanno |
| Successor2: | position abolished |
Alexis Arette-Lendresse (20 June 1927 – 15 January 2023), also known as Alexis Arette-Hourquet, was a French farmer, writer, and politician of the National Front.[1] He was associated with the Organisation armée secrète.
Arette left Metropolitan France for French Indochina in 1949 as a .[2] After being wounded, he was honored by the Legion of Honour and awarded a Médaille militaire. He returned to France in 1953 and took over his parents' farm and joined the . In 1967, he served as director of the Festival de Siros and became vice-president of the Académie de Béarn in 1970. From 1982 to 1991, he was president of the Fédération française de l'agriculture.[3]
In 1986, Arette was elected to the Regional Council of Aquitaine on the list of the National Front,[4] and re-elected in 1992.[5]
In 2001, Arette published the book Les Dieux du crépuscule, which theorized that mad cow disease had been instrumented by the Americans.[6]
Arette died on 15 January 2023, at the age of 95.[7]