The Mouvement Franciste ("Francist" Movement) was a French

France

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 Fascist

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 and Antisemitic league created by Marcel Bucard

Marcel Bucard

Marcel Bucard was a French Fascist politician.Early career=...

 in September 1933; it edited the newspaper Le Francisme. Mouvement Franciste reached of membership of 10,000, and was financed by Italian

Italy

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 dictator Benito Mussolini

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. Its members were deemed the francistes or Chemises bleues (Blueshirts), and gave the Roman salute

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 (a paramilitary

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 character which was mirrored in France by François Coty

François Coty

François Coty was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française...

's Solidarité Française

Solidarité Française

Solidarité Française was a French far right league founded in 1933 by perfume manufacturer François Coty and commanded by Major Jean Renaud, they dressed in blue shirts, black berets, and jackboots, and shouted the slogan "France for the French"...

).

The Mouvement took part in the violent Paris rallies

6 February 1934 crisis

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 of 6 February 1934, during which the entire far right

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 (from Action Française

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 to Croix-de-Feu

Croix-de-Feu

Croix-de-Feu was a French far right league of the Interwar period, led by Colonel François de la Rocque . After it was dissolved, as were all other far right leagues during the Popular Front period , de la Rocque replaced it with the Parti social français .- Beginnings :The Croix-de-Feu were...

) protested the implications of the Stavisky Affair

Stavisky Affair

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 and possibly attempted to topple the Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.-Career:Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined...

 government. It incorporated the Solidarité Française after Coty's death later in the same year.

All the 6 February

6 February 1934 crisis

The 6 February 1934 crisis refers to an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris organized by far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde, near the seat of the French National Assembly...

 participant movements were outlawed in 1936, when Léon Blum

Léon Blum

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's Popular Front

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 government passed new legislation on the matter. After a failed attempt in 1938, the Movement was refounded as a Party (Parti Franciste) in 1941, after France was overrun by Nazi Germany

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.

Together with Jacques Doriot

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's Parti Populaire Français

Parti Populaire Français

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 and Marcel Déat

Marcel Déat

Marcel Déat was a French Socialist until 1933, when he initiated a spin-off from the French Section of the Workers' International along with other right-wing 'Neosocialists'. He then founded the collaborationist National Popular Rally during the Vichy regime...

's Rassemblement National Populaire, the francistes were the main collaborators

Collaboration

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 of the Nazi occupiers

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 and Vichy France

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. The Parti Franciste did not survive the end of World War II

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, and was considered treason

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ous.