A comprehensive new historical study of the extreme right in
France, from the Vichy regime to the present day.
The Front National is France's third largest party and the most
significant extreme-right force in Europe; its leader, Jean-Marie
Le Pen, contested the second round of the 2002 presidential
election with 5.5 million votes.
This book examines this resurgence of French right-wing
extremism from a historical perspective, tracing the political
lineage of Le Pen and the FN through key figures and movements on
the French extreme right since 1940. Part 1 devotes chapters to the
Vichy regime, the aftermath of the Occupation, the Poujadist
movement, the Algerian War and extreme-right ideology and activism
in the 1960s and 1970s. Part 2 analyzes the electoral rise of the
FN, its evolving programme and exploitation of salient issues, the
geography and sociology of its vote and its impact on political
culture in contemporary France. The FN, it is argued, represents
both the latestmanifestation of a long tradition of right-wing
radicalism and a complex new phenomenon within the changing social
and political dynamics of France today. This is an essential text
for all readers with an interest in the future of European
politics.
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