During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right h

Instead, most detail the organization and membership of various organizations, and often recount their quotidian activities as political actors within (and in o

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provi

"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Le

France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in int