Pierre Dominique Costantini or commandant Costantini (often misspelled Constantini) (1889–1986) was a French soldier, journalist, writer and Bonapartist

Bonapartist

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 militant.

Life

He fought as an officer in the First World War and as a reserve officer in the armée de l'air during 1939–1940. He founded the Mouvement social européen

European Social Movement

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. In 1940, he founded the collaborationist Ligue française d’épuration, d’entraide sociale et de collaboration européenne

French League

The French League was a collaborationist French movement founded by Pierre Costantini in September 1940...

 and with Jean Boissel, Marcel Déat

Marcel Déat

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, Pierre Clementi

Pierre Clémenti

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 and Eugène Deloncle

Eugène Deloncle

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 co-founded the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme (LVF). He edited the Ligue's organ, the journal L'Appel

L'Appel

L'Appel was a collaborationist periodicial of Vichy France. It was the organ of the collaborationist French League and edited by the League's leader, Pierre Costantini of the Parti populaire français . Its two main contributors were Robert Julien-Courtine and Paul Riche....

. In 1943, he founded the Union des journalistes anti-maçons. He fled to Sigmaringen

Sigmaringen

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in 1944 and was condemned to prison in 1952. He later pursued a journalistic career and published several essays.

Works

• La Grande pensée de Bonaparte, Paris, Éditions Baudinière, 1940.
• La Haute signification de la Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme, Paris, L.V.F., circa [1942].
• Ode au masque de Napoléon, Paris, Éditions Baudinière, 1943.