The development of the Radical Right in France
Subtitle: from Boulanger to Le Pen
By: edited and translated by Edward J. Arnold
Contributors: Arnold, Edward J., 1965-
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Right and left (Political science); Conservatism -- France -- History; Right-wing extremists -- France -- Political activity; France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940; France -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: "In the context of the continuing debate on the conundrum of fascism, it is significant that the themes of organic nationalism and anti-Semitism that were developed in Belle Epoque France not only fed subsequent forms of fascism (Italian and German) but were also to become a significant part of the discourse of French extreme-right and fascist movements and intellectuals during the interwar years.

These themes were a driving force behind the anti-Semitic policies of Vichy and its involvement in the Final Solution. Some aspects of this ideological tradition have reappeared in postwar France and are notably identifiable in the ideology and political myths of the two National Front movements in contemporary France."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index
Table of contents: title: Part I. 1887-1914 : La Belle Epoque : origins and evolution of nationalism and prefascism? Socialism and Boulangism, 1887-89 / Michel Winock; title: Anti-Semitic discourse in Dreyfus-Affair France / Jeremy Jennings; title: The right wing and the working classes : the case of the 'syndicats "jaunes"' (1899-1912) / Edward J. Arnold; title: Elusive fascism : reflections on the French extreme right at the end of the nineteenth century / Christophe Prochasson; title: Part II. 1914-40 : the interwar years. A flirt or a love affair? French intellectuals between fascism and nazism / Shlomo Sand; title: The Croix de Feu and fascism : a foreign thesis obstinately maintained / Kevin Passmore; title: The intellectual extreme right in the thirties / Jeannine Verdès-Leroux; title: Part III. 1940-44 : in the breach. The ideology of the National Revolution / Philippe Burrin; title: Vichy and fascism / Julian Jackson; title: Collaborationist fascism / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia; title: Part IV. 1944-1998 : smouldering ashes? Nostalgia and political impotence : neo-nazi and extreme-right movements in France, 1944-1964 / Jean-Yves Camus; title: Plus ça change! The fascist pedigree of the Nouvelle Droite / Roger Griffin; title: The conditions for the re-emergence of an extreme right wing in France : the National Front, 1984-98 / Pascal Perrineau