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When the far right resisted, 1939-1945

Men of the far 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 into London the Gaullist secret services of commander Georges Loustaunau-Lacau and his secretary Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, who tried to organize the Resistance within Vichy, or the monarchists Pierre de Bénouville and Jacques Renouvin, who assumed 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 anti-communists, erred in the Collaboration. The most moderate support the policy of Vichy, such as Charles Spinasse, former minister of the Popular Front. In Paris, two major collaborationist parties were founded by the toughest: the PPF of former communist Jacques Doriot and the Rassemblement national populaire of neo-socialist Marcel Déat. Former pacifist and press boss Jean Luchaire compromises with the occupier. While Marc Augier, a former member of the government of the Popular Front, joined the German troops in 1941.

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