Henri-Auguste d'Halluin known by the pseudonym Henri Dorgères, was a French political activist. He is best known for his Comités de Défense Paysanne.

Henri Dorgères was born in 1897, in Wasquehal, a small town in northeast France. In 1927, he moved to Rennes

Rennes

Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.-History:...

, in Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, and it was there that he founded his first Peasants' Defense Committee. The members of these Defense Committees were also known as "Green shirts" in the style of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

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's Black shirts.

Dorgères was awarded the Ordre de la francisque by Marshal Philippe Pétain

Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...

 for his work in the French right-wing. Because of his fascist sympathies, Dorgères was imprisoned by the Allies

Allies of World War II

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 during the liberation of France in 1944. He was released because of work he had done with the Resistance

French Resistance

The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

 during the war. In 1956, he was elected to the French National Assembly

French National Assembly

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 from the Breton town of Ille-et-Vilaine

Ille-et-Vilaine

Ille-et-Vilaine is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country.- History :Ille-et-Vilaine is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

; he remained in the Assembly until 1958.