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Article: The Development of the Radical Right in France: From Boulanger to Le Pen.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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edited and translated by Edward J. Arnold. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. xxi, 288 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cloth).
The French far right remains a subject of enduring interest to scholars, partly because of the disturbing staying power of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front (notwithstanding the recent defection of Bruno Megret and his supporters), and partly because of the wider analytical problems at stake. This collection of essays often demonstrates an admirable coherence in raising such broader issues. For example, in Part I, most of the contributors deal with the relationship between the left and the far right from the 1880s to the First World War. Michel Winock ...
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