Far-right politics in France
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The far-right tradition in France finds its origins in the Third Republic with Boulangism and the Dreyfus affair. In the 1880s, General Georges Boulanger, called "General Revenge", championed demands
Georges Ernest Boulanger (1837–1891)
Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus, 1895
Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the Front National in 1972 and led it until 2011
Marine Le Pen succeeded her father as Front National leader in 2011
Vichy France
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Vichy France, also known as the Pétainist regime and Pétainist France, officially the French State, was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a resu
Far-right politics in France
…pre-war right wing party. Other important figures of the 1930s include Xavier Vallat, who would become General Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under Vichy, members of the Cagoule terrorist group (Eugène Deloncle, Eugène Schueller (the founder of L'Oréal cosmetic firm), Jacques Corrèze, Joseph Darnand, who…
Propaganda poster for the Vichy Regime's Révolution nationale program, 1942
Members of the Milice performing the Roman salute, 1943
French prisoners of war are marched off under German guard, 1940
Pétain meeting Hitler in October 1940