1st Edition
France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence, 1918–1945
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Conventions
Chapter One: Introductory: The Radical Right in France Before the First World War
Section A: Some Aspects of the French Radical Right’s Impact Outside France in the Interwar Period
Chapter Two: The French Right and Catholic Movements in Other European Countries
Chapter Three: A Kind of ‘torysme français’? Action Française and English Cultural Life
Chapter Four: ‘There are some among our younger Welshmen to whom Maurras means a great deal’: The French Right as a Driving-Force of Welsh Nationalism
Section B: Interwar France
Chapter Five: Backdrop to Extremism: A Peculiarly French Form of Social Anti-Semitism
Chapter Six: Old and New, Homegrown and Foreign: The Ligues
Chapter Seven: Pro-Nazism and the French Right in the Thirties: A Comparison with the British Experience
Chapter Eight: Joy and Despair; Two Contrasting Fascist Intellectuals, Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Chapter Nine: Fascism from the Left? ‘Neo-socialism’ and ‘planisme’ in France and Belgium in the 1930s
Section C: The Second World War
Chapter Ten: Nazi Encouragement of Independence Movements: The Case of Brittany
Chapter Eleven: ‘Non-political’ Collaboration: A Complicated Picture
Chapter Twelve: Dilemmas of the French Right in Wartime Vichy, Paris, London and Algiers
Conclusion
Appendix One: The Wartime Situation
Appendix Two: Rogues’ Gallery
Index
Biography
Richard Griffiths is the author of Marshal Pétain; Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany 1933–1939; Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939–40 and What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940–45.
