France’s Purveyors of Hatred

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.

• 1. 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 2. The French Right and Catholic Movements in Other European Countries 3. A Kind of ‘torysme français’? Action Française and English Cultural Life 4. ‘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 5. Backdrop to Extremism: A Peculiarly French Form of Social Anti-Semitism 6. Old and New, Homegrown and Foreign: The Ligues 7. Pro-Nazism and the French Right in the Thirties: A Comparison with the British Experience 8. Joy and Despair; Two Contrasting Fascist Intellectuals, Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle 9. Fascism from the Left? ‘Neo-socialism’ and ‘planisme’ in France and Belgium in the 1930s Section C: The Second World War 10. Nazi Encouragement of Independence Movements: The Case of Brittany 11. ‘Non-political’ Collaboration: A Complicated Picture 12. Dilemmas of the French Right in Wartime Vichy, Paris, London and Algiers Conclusion Appendix One: The Wartime Situation Appendix Two: Rogues’ Gallery

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