League French Action

See also: French Action (homonymy)

League of French Action , organization of propaganda and recruitment of the Royalist movement the French Action.

Founded in 1905, the league aimed to be established in the majority of the areas of France in order to recruit militants there, to organize meetings and to distribute the daily newspaper the French Action and to found periodicals adapted to the various solicited audiences (for example: the agricultural French Action , the French Action of Sunday and the Almanac of French Action ).

The day before the First World War, one estimates at 300 the number of sections of the league (they were to count a minimum of 40 members). The principal areas represented are: north and the Pas-de-Calais, the Paris region (the Seine and Seine-et-Oise) and South (South-western and South-eastern) including the Rhone delta (from where Charles Maurras was originating, Martigues) and the Gard. The president of the league was a long time Bernard de Vesins, said the " colonel-comte". The commission of propaganda (founded in 1920) was directed by the captain Robert de Boisfleury and Charles Maurras. Marius Plateau occupied the position of secretary general until its assassination in 1923. The league disappears with the judgment from the French Action and its leader in 1944.

Oath

the member of a league of French Action was to lend oath, it acted of a constraining engagement which ditinguait it simple " allié" or sympathizing:

"French of birth and heart, reason and will, I will fill all the duties of a conscious Patriote. I commit myself fighting any republican mode . The République in France is the reign from abroad. The republican spirit disorganizes national defense and supports directly hostile religious influences with the traditional Catholicisme. It is necessary to return to France a mode which is French. Our single future is thus the Monarchie such as Mgr personifies it the Duc of Own way, heir to the forty kings who, in thousand years, made France. Only, Monarchy ensures public safety and, guarantor of the order, prevents the public evils that the Antisémitisme and the Nationalisme denounce. Body necessary of any general interest, monarchy concerns the authority, freedoms, prosperity and the honor. I join work monarchical restoration. I commit myself serving it by all the moyens" "

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