French Anti-Semitic Illustrated Leaflet Issued by Action Française
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The leaflet was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020.
Scope and Content
A large, illustrated French leaflet (newspaper-format) issued by the political movement Action Française. One of its sides deals with the 40 French kings (Les 40 rois qui, en mille ans, firent la France) and the other side with the Jews "who in sixty years have ruined France": Adolphe Crémieux, Alfred Naquet, Dreyfus, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Blum and more – Marxists, communists, Bolsheviks, and others. The illustrations are by the caricaturist Ralph Soupault. Les Mille Juifs, qui, en soixante ans, ont ruiné la France [The Thousand Jews, who in sixty years have ruined France], Paris: L'action Francaise Mensuelle, [ca. 1936]. French.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Subjects
- Paris (France)
- Antisemitism--France--Periodicals.
- Paris (France)--Newspapers.
Genre
- Document