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The Farmers' Front (French: Front paysan) was a group representing the French agrarian movement founded in 1934[1]: 171 consisting of the French Agrarian and Peasant Party, the Comités de défense paysanne, and the Union nationale des syndicats agricoles.
Farmers' Front Front paysan | |
|---|---|
 Report in L'Ouest-Éclair on a demonstration held by the Farmers' Front in Rennes, October 1934 | |
| General Secretary | Jacques Le Roy Ladurie |
| Leaders | Fleurant Agricola Henry Dorgères Jacques Le Roy Ladurie |
| Founder | Henry Dorgères |
| Founded | 22 June 1934 |
| Dissolved | 1 March 1936 |
| Newspaper | Syndicats paysans |
| Ideology | Agrarian corporatism |
| Political position | Far-right to fascist |
| Members | PAPF Comités de défense paysanne UNSA |
History
editJacques Le Roy Ladurie served as its general secretary. It published the journal Syndicats paysans.
In the 1935 Loir-et-Cher by-election Henry Dorgères, the founder of the Comités de défense paysanne, stood unsuccessfully for the Loir-et-Cher department under the Farmers' Front banner, where he was narrowly defeated in the second round of voting by the Radical-Socialist Party candidate Émile Laurens.[2]
The Farmers' Front's ambiguous attitude towards Republican institutions meant that it did not have support from the Croix de Feu.[3]
The Farmers' Front fell apart in 1936 due to differences in political strategy.[1]: 176
References
edit- 1 2 Ory, Pascal (1975). "Le dorgérisme, institution et discours d'une colère paysanne (1929-1939)". Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine (in French). 22 (2): 168–190.
- ↑ Guérin, André (1 April 1935). "Dorgères est battu". L'Œuvre (in French). No. 7, 122. Paris. p. 1.
- ↑ Winock, Michel (2006). "Revisiting French Fascism: La Rocque and the Croix-de-Feu". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire. 2 (90). Presses de Sciences Po: 3–27. ISBN 9782724630312.
Sources
edit- Paxton, Robert O. (1997). French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgères' Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535474-4.
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