Henry Charbonneau

Biographical elements

French Action with collaboration

After having started with the French Action as a Camelot of the king in the Thirties he becomes member of the National committee. In 1935, it organizes (in company, in particular, Thierry Maulnier and Jean-Pierre Maxence) a meeting with the militant Antisémite Louis Darquier de Pellepoix who gathers 4000 young French. It will join then the adventure of the Hood before following Deloncle to CSAR.

Near to Joseph Darnand of which he was the nephew by alliance, he engaged in 1941 in the tricolor Légion, organization installation by the government of the French State, before becoming one of the persons in charge of the African Phalange, combatant under the German uniform in Tunisia. He was also editor association of Combats, body of the French Milice with Paris. With the Release, it undergoes a lawsuit for Collaboration and intelligence with the enemy; he escapes from little from the judgment. Former friend of Robert Brasillach, Charbonneau gave his support to the " Association of the Friends of Robert Brasillach".

Activities of nationalist militant and It is finished for them

The Fifties until his death, Henry Charbonneau continues his engagement in various nationalist combat. He adheres to New Ordre and with the Parti the new forces and he continues his journalistic activity while collaborating in the Dawn , in Carrefour and Current values . Between 1952 and 1956, it publishes some works with the tourist Éditions and arts persons ; it made there appear two books of Pierre-Antoine Cousteau and a work with the discussed subject signed X which will be prohibited ( For the militia, Justice! , foreword of the general Lavigne-Delville)

In 1960, Charbonneau publishes with the former collaborators Emmanuel Allot (who writes under the pseudonym of François Brigneau) and Henri Gault, a work of portraits and talks ( It is finished for them ) on various discussed figures, especially of extreme right-hand side: Leon Degrelle, the Abbot Pierre, Otto Skorzeny, the Colonel Rémy, the Campesinos, Leni Riefenstahl, Turco, Westerling and Arthur Koestler.

Memories of Porthos

Charbonneau tells its history in 1963 in an anecdotic work entitled the black novel of the right-hand side in France which will become the Memories of Porthos (2 volumes, Éditions of Chiré). Two volumes gather memories which cover approximately a quarter century (T. 1 is devoted to the Twenties until the Second world war, presents the hopes of a whole part of the French youth of " right " exit in particular of the mediums of the French Action; it also reconsiders on the event of the February 6th, 1934, on the Hood, the defeat of 1940 and the attempts at rectification to the name the national Révolution).

The second volume draws the picture of the prisons of the Épuration and with the bagnes republican S of the post-war period when were thrown peel-mixes all those, according to Charbonneau, which the Communiste S indicated as being " traîtres" with their design of the Patriotism. Against any waiting, the author tackles the subject with humor and an astonishing sobriety. He also reconsiders on the figure of Joseph Darnand and his daily life of Fresnes. This work constitutes a considerable source of anecdotes on the right French of the XXe century and it shows that Charbonneau remained faithful to its convictions of Extrême right-hand side just as with his/her comrades of the Collaboration. There will remain militant a intransigent Nationaliste until its death in 1982.

His/her son, Jean-Romée Charbonneau (born in 1952) is Regional adviser of the National front Two-Sevres. Some time before his death, Henry Charbonneau had settled in his son with Landeronde in the Vendée.

Publications

(with François Brigneau and Henri Gault), the adventure is finished for them . Paris, Gallimard, collection air of time, 1960. Republication under the title: When the weapons are kill. Memories. Meetings. Talks , Paris, Publications BFR, 1992 (publications BFR = François Brigneau)
Memories of Porthos (1920-1943) , T. 1 Paris, Editions of the Clan, 1967.
Memories of Porthos. The black French line novel (1944-1946) , T. 2, Paris, Editions of the Clan, 1969.

B. and G. Delluc: Jean Filliol, of Périgord to the Hood, the Militia with Oradour , Périgueux, Controls 24 edition, 2005.

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