Reconciling France against Democracy
The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2007
- Category
- France
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773532052
- Publish Date
- Feb 2007
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773578142
- Publish Date
- Feb 2007
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Kennedy describes how the Croix de Feu promised to restore patriotic unity to France but instead demonized the organization's enemies as unfit to be French; its successor, the Parti Social Français, professed a respect for democracy but actually promoted an authoritarian nationalist vision. Previous studies have focused on whether the Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français should be considered fascist. Reconciling France against Democracy assesses them from a variety of perspectives and considers the extent to which they foreshadowed Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National.
About the author
Sean M. Kennedy is professor of history at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and the author of Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927–1945.