Une ligue des annees trente : la solidarite francaise

A league of the thirties : la solidarite francaise

• Auteur / Autrice : Gilles Lahousse
• Direction : Jean-François Sirinelli
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Histoire
• Date : Soutenance en 1995
• Etablissement(s) : Lille 3

Mots clés

Mots clés contrôlés

France -- 1931-1932 (P. Doumer)

France -- 1932-1940 (A. Lebrun)

Coty, René (1882-1962)

Résumé

C'est en 1933 que francois coty, celebre industriel des annees vingt, lanca la solidarite francaise. Cette ligue, a vocation essentiellement politique, connut un essor aussi rapide qu'inattendu, qui lui permit notamment de jouer les premiers roles lors des fameuses emeutes du 6 fevrier 1934. Mais l'organisation eut la vie breve. A l'heure de sa dissolution (1936), il ne reste deja plus grand chose des espoirs suscites quelques annees plus tot. Malgre cela, la ligue tenta une impossible reconversion qui ne fut en fait qu'une longue agonie la menant jusqu'a l'aube du second conflit mondial. Les causes de cet echec sont bien entendu multiples, mais revetent pour la plupart un caractere endogene ou accidentel (dissidences, mort prematuree du president-fondateur. . . ). Longtemps consideree comme fasciste, la solidarite francaise presente finalement les caracteristiques d'un mouvement national-populiste, meme si celui-ci avait revetu, signe des temps, les oripeaux a la mode du fascisme transalpin.

In 1933, francois coty, a well-known industrialist of the twenties, created the solidarite francaise. This league, which aim was mainly political, made great (and unexpected) strides. That growing importance allowed the movement, among other things, to play an important part in the famous riots of the sixth of february 1934. But the organization did not last long. When it disappeared, in 1936, little was left of the hopes and dreams that were born of few years earlier. In spite of that, the league tried an improbable reconversion but eventually, it died away on the eve of the second world war. The reasons of that failure are numerous of course but, for the most part, they are intrinsic or accidental (divisions, untimely death of the founderpresident and so on. . . ). The solidarite francaise, which has been considered as a fascist league for a long time, had all the characteristics of a ''national populist'' movement, even if the latter had assumed the features of the then fashionable italian fascism.