Action Française

  • AF
Identifier
362
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1898

History

The best-known and most influential anti-Semitic organization was the Action Française, formed in 1898 by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois as a result of the Dreyfus affair. The AF was both a political and a literary movement. The daily paper of the same name started in 1908 and reached a considerable part of the bourgeois, student and Catholic world. The paper, employing gifted writers, was relentless in its vituperative attacks, on both a general and personal level, on Jews, sometimes inciting violence.

Places

  • Founded in France.

Sources

  • Verdict on Vichy. Power and prejudice in the Vichy France Regime / M. Curtis. - London, 2002. - p. 41