Richard GriffithsFrance's Purveyors of Hatred
Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence, 1918-1945
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
