Georges Valois
Georges Valois | |
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 Valois in 1922 | |
| Born | Alfred-Georges Gressent 7 October 1878 |
| Died | February 1945 (aged 66) |
| Cause of death | Typhus |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | French |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and Politician |
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Georges Valois (real name Alfred-Georges Gressent; 7 October 1878 – February 1945) was a
national syndicalist politician. He was a member of the French Resistance and died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[1]
Life and career
Born in a working-class and peasant family in
Imperial Russia (1903), he worked as secretary at Armand Colin
publishing house.
After having written his first book, L'Homme Qui Vient (The Coming Man), he met the
In 1911, he created the anti-Semitic. According to the historian Zeev Sternhell, that ideology was the prefiguration of Italian fascism.
In 1925, Valois founded the weekly Le Nouveau Siècle (The New Century), which was seen by Maurras as a potential rival.Faisceau league.[2]
His long-term collaborator
Roman Catholic Church (which in 1926 excommunicated the Action française), that the best solution was to infiltrate the Third Republic
's institutions.
Valois lost financial support, the Faisceau was dissolved, he founded the
Edouard Berth
.
After the
corporatist economy.[2] In 1935, he attempted to join the SFIO, but was turned down although he was backed by Marceau Pivert
.
Valois took part in the
co-operative project.[2]
Valois was finally arrested by the
Nazis on 18 May 1944, and died in February 1945 of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[2][1]
Works
- La Monarchie et la classe ouvrière, 1914
- L'Économie Nouvelle, 1919
- La révolution nationale, 1924
- L'État syndical et la représentation corporative, les semaines économiques et la campagne pour les états généraux 1920-1924, 1927
- Basile ou la politique de la calomnie, 1927
- L'Homme contre l'argent, 1928
- Un Nouvel âge de l'humanité, 1929
- Finances italiennes, 1930
- Économique, 1931
- Guerre ou révolution, 1931
- Journée d'Europe, 1932
- 1917-1941 : fin du bolchevisme, conséquences européennes de l'événement, 1941
- L'Homme devant l'éternel (published posthumously), 1947
See also
- Faisceauleague
- 6 February 1934 crisis
References
- ^ a b "Acte de naissance No. 9558 (vue 4/31) de Alfred Georges Gressent du registre des naissances de l'année 1878 du 14e arrondissement de Paris". Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ Sciences-Powebsite (Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po - Georges Valois (Alfred-Georges Gressent) (in French)
- ^ Bourrée, Fabrice, Plaque en hommage à Jacques Arthuys, fondateur de l'OCM (in French), Fondation de la Résistance (Département AERI), retrieved 28 June 2017
- ISBN 0-691-00629-6, retrieved 30 June 2017
Further reading
- Yves Guchet, Georges Valois, ISBN 2-7475-1214-2
- Jean-Louis Loubet del Bayle, Les non-conformistes des années 1930, Points Histoire, Seuil, 2001, ISBN 2-02-048701-2
- ISBN 0-691-04486-4)
- Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, Princeton Univ. Press, California ISBN 0-691-00629-6
External links
- Inventaire Georges Valois
- Allen Douglas, From Fascism to Libertarian Communism, University of California Press, 1993.