French Social Party

French Social Party
French: Parti Social Français
PresidentFrançois de La Rocque
Founded10 January 1936 (1936-01-10)
Dissolved10 July 1940; 84 years ago (1940-07-10)
Preceded byCroix-de-Feu
Succeeded byRepublican Social Party of French Reconciliation
HeadquartersRue de Milan, Paris
NewspaperLe Petit Journal
Le Flambeau
Membership (1940)350,000
IdeologyFrench nationalism
Social Catholicism
National conservatism
Corporatism
Populism
Anti-communism
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
Colours  Black

The French Social Party (French: Parti Social Français, PSF) was a French nationalist political party founded in 1936 by François de La Rocque, following the dissolution of his Croix-de-Feu league by the Popular Front government. France's first right-wing mass party, prefiguring the rise of Gaullism after the Second World War,[1] it experienced considerable initial success but disappeared in the wake of the fall of France in 1940 and was not refounded after the war.

  1. ^ Jacques Nobécourt, lecture at the Academy of Rouen, 7 February 1998; published in AL № 59, July 1998.