Groupe Union Défense
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Groupe Union Défense, better known as GUD, was a French far-right students' union formed in the 1960s. After a period of inactivity it relaunched in 2022.
Members of the GUD during demonstration in Paris in 2012
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
Groupe Union Défense
…Former member of the GUD Alain Orsoni was member of the FLNC. History of far-right movements in France Federation of Nationalist Students…
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