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Reconciling France against Democracy - The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Francais, 1927-1945 (Hardcover)
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Reconciling France against Democracy - The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Francais, 1927-1945 (Hardcover)
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An obscure veterans' group during the mid-1930s, the Croix de Feu
grew into a nationalist movement with half a million supporters. In
Reconciling France against Democracy Sean Kennedy explores how the
group, led by Franois de La Rocque, reshaped French politics and
helped set the stage for the repressive Vichy regime. Kennedy
describes how the Croix de Feu promised to restore patriotic unity
to France but instead demonized the organization's enemies as unfit
to be French; its successor, the Parti Social Franais, professed a
respect for democracy but actually promoted an intensely
nationalist vision. Previous studies have focused on whether the
Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Franais should be considered
fascist. Reconciling France against Democracy assesses them from a
variety of perspectives and considers the extent to which they
foreshadowed Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Despite its
numbers, the Parti Social Franais was eventually marginalized by
Vichy and La Rocque was imprisoned by the Germans. Kennedy explores
the ideology and tactics of the Croix de Feu and the Parti Social
Franais to show how authoritarian nationalist groups can fail to
attain power yet still exert a profound influence on a nation's
political culture.
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