Alice Cordier (born 1998) is a French identitarian activist who founded the Collectif Némésis in 2019 and has chaired it ever since. The collective presents itself as feminist while attributing violence against women mainly to immigration. Cordier has become its main public face and has appeared on media outlets belonging to the Bolloré group. Several media outlets have reported on links between her and neo-Nazi activists, which she disputes in part.
Early life
Cordier was born into a wealthy Catholic family from Rennes and is the second of three children. She studied health and social care in Paris, a choice she links to her faith. She received her political training as a teenager in Action Française, while living in Orléans, and later attended the summer conference of Academia Christiana. After moving to Paris in 2017, she took a course at the Institut de formation politique, popular among young identitarians. She says that harassment she experienced on Paris streets, which she attributes to foreign men, led to her later involvement in the Collectif Némésis.
Leadership of Némésis
Cordier founded the Collectif Némésis in 2019, although it was only registered as an association in March 2021. The collective describes itself as feminist and draws on young white women from urban, affluent backgrounds. It uses tactics associated with feminist movements, such as public happenings and poster campaigns, while promoting a strictly codified femininity. Researchers have described its outlook as femonationalist, and Cordier adopted her public pseudonym in November 2020. She was invited regularly by media outlets including CNews, Europe 1 and C8, and in 2022 she was the only spokesperson of the collective with more than 20,000 Instagram followers.
Public image and controversy
Researchers describe Cordier and other Némésis activists as alternating between traditional femininity and a deliberately virile image, including posing with weapons. In 2026, Cordier commented on the death of Quentin Deranque, a far-right activist who died after a brawl with anti-fascists in Lyon. She presented him as having come to protect Némésis activists at a conference by MEP Rima Hassan, an account his parents dispute. According to Le Canard enchaîné, she became the leading media voice on the affair, and Marianne reported that more than 200 activists left the collective afterwards.