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When the extreme right resisted, 1939-1945

Men of the extreme right, patriots and nationalists above all, end up engaging in the Resistance, like the monarchist Gilbert Renault and former members of the Cagoule, who integrate in London the Gaullist secret services, of the commander Georges Loustaunau-Lacau and his secretary Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who try to organize the Resistance within Vichy, or the monarchists Pierre de Bénouville and Jacques Renouvin, who assume important functions within the national liberation movement Combat.

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When the left collaborated, 1939-1945

After the defeat of 1940, many left-wing men, pacifists and anticommunists, get lost in the Collaboration. The most moderate support the policy of Vichy, like Charles Spinasse, former minister of the Popular Front. In Paris, two major collaborationist parties are founded by the hardest: the PPF of ex-Communist Jacques Doriot, and the Rassemblement national populaire of neosocialist Marcel Déat. The former pacifist and press boss Jean Luchaire is compromising with the occupier. While Marc Augier, former member of the government of the Popular Front, commits himself, in 1941, alongside the German troops.

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