Action Française
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Oct 26, 2026
Richard VinenGUEST
But it is also partly a kind of political style.
Richard VinenGUEST
And Action Française, which is the political movement that probably is most intellectually influential in terms of royalism, which becomes influential from the early 20th century onwards.
Richard VinenGUEST
They particularly, I think they have this rather odd relationship where they're not on very good terms with the pretenders of the French throne.
Richard VinenGUEST
And so for them in particular, royalism is a style more than a project.
Richard VinenGUEST
But it is also partly a kind of political style.
Richard VinenGUEST
And Action Française, which is the political movement that probably is most intellectually influential in terms of royalism, which becomes influential from the early 20th century onwards.
Richard VinenGUEST
They particularly, I think they have this rather odd relationship where they're not on very good terms with the pretenders of the French throne.
Richard VinenGUEST
And so for them in particular, royalism is a style more than a project.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
Because for him, the three heavens had in common the peril of individualism, this ferment, this vector of dissolution of organic societies.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
And so in the first issues of the Action Française, in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurras publishes a very ferocious pamphlet against the Monod, who were an emblematic Protestant family who had come back from Switzerland after the revolution and who were very much involved in the foundation of the Third Republic and in particular in the Dreyfus Affair where Protestants embraced massively the cause of Dreyfus.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
So on the one hand, anti-Protestantism, both literary and political.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
Protestants were, you know, were supposed not to have any sense of art because Protestantism is an austere, abstract religion, et cetera, et cetera.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
Because for him, the three events had in common the peril of individualism, this ferment, this vector of dissolution of organic societies.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
And so in the first issues of the Action Française, in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurras publishes a very ferocious pamphlet against the Monod, who were an emblematic Protestant family who had come back from Switzerland after the revolution and who were very much involved in the foundation of the Third Republic and in particular in the Dreyfus Affair where Protestants embraced massively the cause of Dreyfus.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
So on the one hand, anti-Protestantism, both literary and political.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
Protestants were, you know, were supposed not to have any sense of art because Protestantism is an austere, abstract religion, etc., etc.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
Because for him, the three events had in common the peril of individualism, this ferment, this vector of dissolution of organic societies.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
And so in the first issues of the Action Française, in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurras publishes a very ferocious pamphlet against the Monod, who were an emblematic protestant family who had come back from switzerland after the revolution and who were very much involved in the foundation of the third republic and in particular in the dreyfus affair where protestants embraced massively uh the the cause of dreyfus So on the one hand, anti-Protestantism, both literary and political.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
Protestants were, you know, were supposed not to have any sense of art because Protestantism is an austere, abstract religion, etc., etc.
Clémentine Fauré-BellaïcheGUEST
Anti-Protestant, political anti-Protestantism.
Mike CunhaHOST
The years went on.
Mike CunhaHOST
Darnand became more and more embittered, and soon he found his community in Action Française and the Cagouillards.
Mike CunhaHOST
Action Française was a royalist and hard-right nationalist group that was popular in the 20s, and the Cagouillards, members were so named after the group's name La Cagoule, aka the Cowl, were a terrorist offshoot of Action Française.
Mike CunhaHOST
Darnand drifted into this latter group, and shortly before the start of World War II, he was arrested for smuggling weapons into France from fascist Italy.
Mike CunhaHOST
What caused all this? Who knows what passes through the minds of our fellow humans? I can only guess that post-war life for Joseph Darnand was difficult.
E. Michael JonesHOST
And I don't th- uh, no bishop will ever support it.
E. Michael JonesHOST
Uh, when they t- when they tried this in France with the Action Française, the church, the Vatican condemned it.
E. Michael JonesHOST
It's never gonna happen.
E. Michael JonesHOST
I don't think it has to happen.
Thomas777GUEST
Some of them weren't.
Thomas777GUEST
They were sort of like, their ideology was sort of like the Action Francais had been under Maurras, but obviously the Action Francais didn't have a direct action capability.
Thomas777GUEST
But these guys are real bomb throwers.
Thomas777GUEST
And, I mean, basically they were at odds with both...
ThomasGUEST
Some of them weren't.
ThomasGUEST
They, they were sort of like, their ideology was sort of like the Action Française had been under Maurras, but obviously the, the Action Française had never a, a, a direct action capability.
ThomasGUEST
But these guys, uh, these guys were real bomb-throwers, and I mean, basically they were at odds with, with both...
ThomasGUEST
Most of them were at odds with the Reich and the, the Allies, obviously, but some of them were, you know, National Socialists.
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Thomas777GUEST
It reached Berlin in February, and everywhere they stopped, they were met by, you know, SS and SA men and National Socialist Party officials, um, delegates of the Spanish Falange, uh, you know, guys, uh, formal representatives of, of the Fascist Party in Italy, um, obviously, you know, a huge Iron Guard contingent, you know, men from the Action Française.
Thomas777GUEST
This funeral train literally did an entire tour of Europe and, uh, was greeted by throngs of onlookers giving it the Roman salute, okay? So, um, I can think of nothing comparable in, in, in, in the communist, uh, world, um, before or after 1945.
Thomas777GUEST
You know, I can think of thing-- I can think of people who the communists tried to glom onto, like Bobby Sands, which was very misguided because Sands certainly wasn't one of them.
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Thomas777GUEST
You know, it was very authentic.
Thomas777GUEST
And just the fact that there were Romanians on the ground in the first place, um, you know, and then they were, they were being greeted and saluted by, you know, uh, Schutzstaffel men, you know, and, um, you had Italian priests, you know, like- Like, like blessing them and things.
Thomas777GUEST
And then, and then there was even like secular, like French fascists, like Action Française types, like saluting them, you know, who had obviously like no, no, no truck with reactionary Catholicism as it was perceived, you know, on, on its own terms.
Thomas777GUEST
But that's most important in America too, because really some historians, including Anthony Beevor, who I, I think he's overall a very good historian, particularly-- I mean, he's not a revisionist really at all.
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