Peasant Corporation

Peasant Corporation
Corporation paysanne
Formation1941–43
Dissolved1944
TypeAgrarian union
PurposeOrganize mutual support of agricultural workers, farmers, artisans and landowners
HeadquartersParis, France

The Peasant Corporation (French: Corporation paysanne) was a Paris-based organization created in Vichy France to support a corporatist structure of agricultural syndicates. The Ministry of Agriculture was unenthusiastic and undermined the corporation, which was launched with a provisional structure in 1941 that was not finalized until 1943. By then the small farmers and farm workers had become disillusioned since the corporation had maintained the privileged position of landowners and had not protected them from demands by the increasingly unpopular German occupiers. The corporation, which was never effective, was dissolved after the liberation of France in September 1944.