This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provi

Historians of the French extreme right frequently denote the existence of a strong xenophobic and nationalist tradition dating from the 1880s, a perpetual anti-

During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right h

"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Le

Instead, most detail the organization and membership of various organizations, and often recount their quotidian activities as political actors within (and in o