Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945

by Sean M. Kennedy

Overview

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 Français, professed a respect for democracy but actually promoted an authoritarian nationalist vision. Previous studies have focused on whether the Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français 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 Front National.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773578142
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	02/27/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Sean Kennedy is associate professor, history, at the University of New Brunswick.
Sean M. Kennedy is professor of history at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and the author of Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927–1945.

Table of Contents

Tables vii

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xiii

Illustrations xv

Introduction 3

1 Vers le six février, 1927-1934 17

2 Against the Popular Front, 1934-1936 51

3 La Famille Croix de Feu 85

4 A Turbulent Transition, 1936-1937 120

5 Remaking the Republic? 1938-1939 157

6 Anticipating the État Social Françe;ais 189

7 War and Dispersion, 1939-1945 225

Epilogue 259

Notes 271

Bibliography 321

Index 343