French Nationalist Party

French nationalist political party

French Nationalist Party

Parti Nationaliste Français

Abbreviation| PNF
General Secretary| André Gandillon
Spokesperson| Yvan Benedetti
President| Jean-François Simon
Founded| 1983; 40 years ago (1983)
Split from| National Front
Newspaper| Militant
Membership| Less than 100 (1990s)
Ideology| French nationalism
Ultranationalism
Neo-Pétainism
Neo-fascism
Identitarianism
Anti-immigration
Political position| Far-right
Religion| Catholic Church
International affiliation| Alliance for Peace and Freedom (Associate)
Colours| Blue and Gold
Party flag
Website
https://www.les-nationalistes.com/

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Ideologies

* French nationalism
* Integral
* Nouvelle Droite
* Gaullism
* Liberal
* Political Catholicism
* Integralism
* Ultramontanism
* Royalism
* Bonapartism
* Legitimism
* Maurrassisme
* Orléanism
* Ultra-royalism
* Sarkozysm

Themes

* Anti-communism
* Catholic social teaching
* Christian democracy
* Counter-revolution
* Elitism
* Noblesse oblige
* Family values
* Monarchism
* Restauration
* Patriotism
* Social hierarchy
* Social order
* Souverainism
* Traditional authority
* Traditionalism

Intellectuals

* Barbey d'Aurevilly
* Bainville
* Barrès
* Barruel
* de Benoist
* Blanc de Saint-Bonnet
* de Bonald
* Boutang
* de Chateaubriand
* Daudet
* Dimier
* Faye
* Ferré
* Guénon
* de Gobineau
* de La Mennais
* Le Bon
* Lefebvre
* Lemaître
* Le Play
* de Maistre
* Massis
* Maurras
* des Mousseaux
* d'Ornellas
* Pujo
* de Rivarol
* Rueff
* Taine
* de Tocqueville
* Veuillot
* Zemmour

Works

* Considerations on France (1796)
* Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (1797)
* The Genius of Christianity (1802)
* On the Pope (1819)
* Democracy in America (1835)
* An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1855)
* The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895)
* The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1945)
* The French Suicide (2014)

Politicians

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* de Polignac
* Sarkozy
* Schuman
* de Vaublanc
* de Villèle
* Zemmour

Parties

Active

* Alliance Royale
* Debout la France
* French Future
* French Nationalist Party
* Future with Confidence
* National Centre of Independents & Peasants
* Reconquête
* The Republicans
* Soyons libres
* VIA, the Way of the People

Defunct

* Feuillants
* French Agrarian and Peasant Party
* French Social Party
* Movement for France
* Independent Republicans
* Party of Order
* Rally for France
* Rally for the Republic
* Republican Federation
* Resistance Party

Organisations

Active

* Action Française
* Initiative and Liberty Movement
* La Manif pour tous
* March for Life
* Student Cockade
* Union Nationale Inter-universitaire

Defunct

* Camelots du Roi
* Cercle Proudhon
* Croix-de-Feu
* Independent Republicans

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The French Nationalist Party (French: Parti Nationaliste Français; PNF), is a far-right neo-fascist[1] political movement established in 1983 by former National Front (FN), including former Waffen-SS members like Pierre Bousquet, Jean Castrillo, and Henri Simon, around the magazine Militant. Inactive after the early 1990s, it was reactivated in 2015 following the dissolution of the néo-Pétainist movement L'Œuvre Française by the French authorities in 2013. Far-right militant Yvan Benedetti serves as its current spokesman.

## History[edit]

The organization was established in December 1983 by Pierre Bousquet, Jean Castrillo, Henri Simon (the three of them were former Waffen-SS Charlemagne members), Pierre Pauty, André Delaporte, Patrice Chabaille, Alain Renault. All of them, except Simon, were former National Front (FN) members who had split off from the party in 1980 after dismissing it as becoming "too conservative" and "too Zionist" following the death of François Duprat in 1978.[2][3][4] FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen himself was seen a puppet of the Jews,[5] and rising FN member Jean-Pierre Stirbois accused of secretly being a Jew.[6] Alain de La Tocnaye, who had been involved in the Petit-Clamart terrorist attack against then French President Charles de Gaulle, was also a founding member of the party.[4]

Pauty was the leader and first president of the Parti Nationaliste Français (PNF). Their aim was to "organize French nationalists and legally diffuse their doctrine", but the racist ideology of a "white Europe from Brest to Vladivostok" failed to convince the public.[7][8]

Two years after the foundation of the Nationalist Party in June 1985, a group of radicals split off the PNF to create the French and European Nationalist Party (PNFE),[3] whose members were involved in several terrorists attacks in the late 1980s, and which replaced the PNF as the main neo-Nazi group in France until its own dissolution in 1999.[9]

From the early 1990s, the PNF was weakened by the departure of its leader Pierre Pauty, who joined the FN in 1992, and by the death of Pierre Bousquet in 1991.[10] In June 1995, Pauty obtained 26.2% of the votes in the municipal election of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis.[11] Meanwhile, the organization became inactive, with only its magazine Militant surviving.[12] The party had no more than 100 militants during this period.[9]

After the dissolution of L'Œuvre Française in 2013, its president Yvan Benedetti, along with André Gandillon, the redactor-in-chief of Militant, reactivated the French Nationalist Party as a new outset for the banned association.[12] In September 2015, Benedetti became its spokesman and called on all L'Œuvre members to join the PNF.[13]

In 2022, party spokesman Yvan Benedetti tried with no success to run as candidate for the 2022 French presidential election.[14][15]

## Organisation[edit]

As of 2016, the party was headed by a 15-member presidium, which included Jean-François Simon (president), André Gandillon (secretary general), Éric Leroy (treasurer), and Yvan Benedetti (spokesman).[3]

Castrillo was a member of the presidium from 1983 until his death in 2012.[3]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Lebourg, Nicolas (2018). "The French Far Right in Russia's Orbit". Carnegie council (Research Report).
2. ^ Taguieff, Pierre-André (1993). "Origines et métamorphoses de la nouvelle droite". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. 40 (1): 6. doi:10.3406/xxs.1993.3005.
3. ^ a b c d de Boissieu, Laurent (2021). "Parti Nationaliste Français (PNF) — France Politique". France-Politique.
4. ^ a b "Parti nationaliste français". Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
5. ^ Camus, Jean-Yves; Lebourg, Nicolas (2017). Far-Right Politics in Europe. Harvard University Press. p. 106\. ISBN 9780674971530.
6. ^ Lebourg, Nicolas (2001). "Neo-fascisme et nationalisme-révolutionnaire. 2. Etat-Nation-Europe". Pratique de l’Histoire et Dévoiements Négationnistes (PHDN).
7. ^ Igounet, Valérie (2009). Histoire du négationnisme en France (in French). Le Seuil. ISBN 9782021009538.
8. ^ Petitfils, Jean-Christian (1987). L'Extrême-droite en France (in French). Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 9782130678816.
9. ^ a b Venner, Fiammetta (2006). Extreme France (in French). Grasset. ISBN 978-2-246-66609-7.
10. ^ Szajkowski, Bogdan; Terranova, Florence (2004). Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World. John Harper Pub. p. 119\. ISBN 9780954381127.
11. ^ Rosso, Romain (7 November 1996). "Profanateurs néonazis: nouvelles preuves". L'Express (in French).
12. ^ a b De Boissieu, Laurent (25 October 2015). "L'Œuvre Française se reconstitue au sein du Parti Nationaliste Français". iPolitique (in French).
13. ^ Erome, Sébastien (1 March 2017). "Yvan Benedetti - Œil sur le front". Libération (in French).
14. ^ "France 2022 : les candidats". FRANCE 24 (in French). 2022-01-14. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
15. ^ Ronai, Maurice (2022-02-01). "Présidentielle : le point sur les candidatures « anti-système »". Conspiracy Watch | L'Observatoire du conspirationnisme (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-16.

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* Charles Martel Group
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* Federation of Nationalist Students
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* Front Algérie Française
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* Ordre Nouveau
* Organisation Armée Secrète
* Party of New Forces
* Phalange Française
* Radical Network
* Rassemblement National Français
* Revolutionary Nationalist Groups
* Troisième Voie
* Unité Radicale

Active groups|

* Action Française
* Adsav
* AGRIF
* Alsace First
* Association for the Defence of the Memory of Marshal Pétain
* Cité catholique
* Civitas
* Carrefour de l'Horloge
* Debout la France
* Equality and Reconciliation
* Europe-Jeunesse
* French Nationalist Party
* French Renewal
* Generation Identity
* GRECE
* League of the South
* National Council of European Resistance
* National Republican Movement
* Party of France
* Rassemblement National
* Reconquête
* Terre et Peuple
* The Patriots

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* Aliot
* Antony
* Ayoub
* Bardèche
* Bardella
* Bay
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* Binet
* Bompard
* Bouchet
* Bousquet
* Blot
* Brigneau
* Briois
* Camus
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* de Benoist
* de Lesquen
* Dior
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* Gollnisch
* Holeindre
* Jalkh
* Lang
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* Pujo
* Rachline
* Ravier
* Reynouard
* Saint-Loup
* Sidos
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* Susini
* Tixier-Vignancour
* Venner
* Vial
* Zemmour

Ideologies and movements|

* Boulangisme
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* Pétainism
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* Boulevard Voltaire
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Notable events|

* Dreyfus affair
* Franco-Prussian War (Revanchism)
* 6 February 1934 crisis
* Vichy France
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