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Action Française (French pronunciation: [aksjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz], AF; English: French Action) is a French far-right monarchist and nationalist political movement. The name was also given to a journal associated with the movement, L'Action Française, sold by its own youth organization, the Camelots du Roi.
L'Action française, organ of Integral nationalism, was a royalist French newspaper founded in Paris on 21 March 1908. [1] It was banned during the Liberation of France in August 1944. The newspaper succeeded the Revue d'Action française of Henri Vaugeois and Maurice Pujo .
Maurice Pujo (French: [mɔʁis pyʒo, moʁ-]; 26 January 1872 – 6 September 1955) was a French journalist and co-founder of the nationalist and monarchist Action Française movement. He became the leader of the Camelots du Roi , the youth organization of the Action Française which took part in many right-wing demonstrations in the years ...
Maurras quickly became influential in the movement, and converted Pujo and Vaugeois to monarchism, which became the movement's principal cause. With Léon Daudet, he edited the movement's review, La Revue de l'Action Française, which during 1908 became a daily newspaper with the shorter title L'Action Française.
The Action française (AF), first founded as a journal and later a political organization, was the matrix of a new type of counter-revolutionary right-wing, which continues to exist today. During the interwar period, the Action française and its youth militia, the Camelots du Roi, were very active. Far right leagues organized riots.
The King's Camelots, officially the National Federation of the King's Camelots (French: Fédération nationale des Camelots du Roi) was a far-right youth organization of the French militant royalist and integralist movement Action Française active from 1908 to 1936. It is best known for taking part in many right-wing demonstrations in France ...
Marthe de Vogüé, Marquise de Mac Mahon (21 November 1860 - 9 June 1923) was a French political activist and monarchist. She was the leader of the Dames Royalistes from the 1900s until her death and was a prominent figure of the Action Française movement.
From left to right: Marcel Bucard, Paul Lafitte and J.-B. L'Herault (Jan. 1934) A decorated soldier who earned a reputation for bravery in World War I, [1] Bucard became active in politics after 1918, initially as a member of Action française, an integralist monarchist far-right group, and later as a member of the overtly-fascist and anti-Semitic Faisceau of Georges Valois.