France's Purveyors of Hatred: Aspects of the French Extreme Right and Its Influence, 1918-1945

ISBN-13: 9780367255879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Richard Griffiths

Opis

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.