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Reconciling France Against Democracy : The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945
ISBN: 9780773560246
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: History;

Launched as a veterans' group, during the mid-1930s the Croix de Feu grew into a nationalist movement with half a million supporters. In Reconciling France against Democracy Sean Kennedy explores how the group, led by François de La Rocque, reshaped French politics and helped set the stage for the repressive Vichy regime.

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.Sean Kennedy is associate professor, history, at the University of New Brunswick.