Street pedlars of the King

History

The militant branch of the French Action

In the beginning, the street pedlars are charged to sell with shouted the newspaper the French Action , founded by Henri Vaugeois and Maurice Pujo.

Resulting from the high-school pupils mediums and students, they make Latin Quarter of Paris their stronghold. In 1910, Charles Maurras had written besides: “To take again is Alsace and Lorraine, it well, but if one started with the Sorbonne? ” These young people, amateurs of brawl, have as a favorite weapon the cane with shoed end, but also the nerve of ox to the fist. They regularly clash with the youth organizations of left, or with the organizations of Extrême right-hand side.

During their creation, the street pedlars are directed by Maxime Real del Sarte, president of the National federation of the Street pedlars of the king. Introducing an ideal of critical youth and rebel, they recruit well beyond the circles monarchists. Their violence however attracts to them the disapproval of the mediums Royaliste S conservatives, and even on behalf of the duke of Orleans, then claiming with the throne of France. They take an active share with the unparliamentary riots of the February 6th, 1934 and are dissolved at the same time as the Ligues of extreme right-hand side the January 18th 1936.

Personalities having militated within the organization

Georges Bernanos, polemist and catholic writer. He breaks with the French Action about 1930.
Henri Lagrange, young militant of French Action, member of the Cercle Proudhon.
Theodore de Fallois
Armand of the Hillock
Marius Plate, general secretary of the French Action, assassinated in January 1923 by the Anarchistic German Berton which aimed in fact Leon Daudet.
Pierre de Bérard
Henry of Lyons
Jean de Barrau, street pedlar known in his time for the force of its convictions and its intrepidity, member of the management Committee of the National federation and private secretary of the duke of Orleans
Lucien Lacour, remained famous to have slapped Aristide Briand.
Alexandre Sanguinetti, politician, future Gaullliste
Pierre de Bénouville, militant of French Action and Resistant
Jehan Grin, poet Regionalistic and nationalist
Claude Roy, writer, it will pass to the Communisme during the Forties
Henry Charbonneau, journalist and member of the French Milice
Jean Filliol, member famous of the Hood
Georges Calzant, future director of the review Aspects of France
Pierre Juhel, one of the founding members movement national Restoration (RN)
Guy Steinbach, one of the current leaders of national Restoration (RN)

Blows of Glare

uproar against the courses of Amédée Thalamas in 1908, shown “to have insulted Jeanne d' Arc”.
the pair of slaps given by Lucien Lacour, young street pedlar, with the president of the Council Aristide Briand, during the inauguration of a statue of Jules Ferry, on November 20th, 1910.
the riot against After me , part of Henri Bernstein in 1911, Jewish playwright, shown by the French Action to have deserted during its Military service.
demonstrations against the transfer to the the Pantheon of ashes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1912.
" National procession of Jeanne d' Arc" , in spite of the prohibition made by the Trust of the lefts in April 1925: 118 wounded police officers and 150 militants, 220 stopped Street pedlars.
the escape from Leon Daudet of the Prison of Health in 1927, following a handling of the phone lines.
the hoax of the Poldèvie

Street pedlars of the king today

The Street pedlars of the King exist always today. They were opposed to the “movements gauchists” of May 1968. One also finds them very present at the time of the commemorations bicentenaries of years 80-90, where they occupy the Cathedral Our-lady of Paris, the Pantheon or the theater of Europe, and disturb an interpretation of the Carmagnole of Helene Delavault. They will flower the statue of Jeanne d' Arc against prohibition of the prefect and in spite of the CRS dams in 1991.
Moins many that formerly, they preserve nevertheless a visibility, in particular by the means of the Cercle Jacques Bainville d' Assas, which recalls often, in the Action Frenchwoman 2000 , the part played by the Street pedlars of the king in the history of AF, or and especially of the French Action Coed (AFE).

Others

In the news “the childhood of a chief” (drawn from the collection the Wall , 1938), Jean-Paul Sartre described - not without irony - the childhood and the youth of a young street pedlar torn between nationalist engagement (Charles Maurras) or surrealist (André Breton).

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