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Encyclopedia > Croix de Feu

Croix de Feu was a French nationalist group of the Interwar period. In English the name is "Cross of Fire".


Primarily a group of veterans of the First World War, it advocated integralism along with its larger rival Action Française.


It benefited from the Catholic Church's proscription of Action Française which prohibited practicing Catholics from supporting Action Française. Many conservative Catholics instead became members of the Croix de Feu, including the young François Mitterrand.


Under François de la Rocque (1885-1946), it organized popular demonstrations in reaction to the Stavisky Affair, hoping to overthrow the government. It subsequently lost prestige and was dissolved by the Popular Front government in 1936.


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I think he is saying that instead of putting a "political" label on the Croix de Feu or other movement of the far right in France we should limit ourselves to describing "fairly and accurately" its politics (presumably in its specifically French context).
The Croix de Feu could for example be both fascist *and* belong to a broader group of populist movements.
To claim that the Croix de Feu is fascist and therefore that it has important features in common with Nazism or Italian fascism does not mean that we have said everything there is to say about the movement.
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