The Ligue des Patriotes: The Nature of the Radical Right and the Dreyfus Affair
1974; Duke University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/285854
ISSN1527-5493
Autores Tópico(s)European Political History Analysis
ResumoMany historians have commented on the transference of nationalism from left to right in the late nineteenth century. Although they have observed this glissement as having taken place somewhere between the generations of Gambetta and Maurras, they differ in accounting for the when and how. On the other hand they all agree that one of the key figures in this transformation was the poet-patriot Paul Deroulede.1 Often portrayed in the history of his times as a semi-comical figure of the second rank, Deroulede is nevertheless identified by his contemporaries as the personification of revanche, the most powerful ingredient in the rising nationalism of the right. Similarly, historians who have emphasized the changed character of the nationalist revival after 1905 have also pointed to Paul Deroulede as an important link between the left republicanism of 1870 and the nationalist upsurge some thirty-five years later.2 As an ideologue Deroulede has never enjoyed the reputation of either his friend Maurice Barr,s or his rival Edouard Drumont. Yet he possessed one advantage that both these men lacked-a political organization-the Ligue des Patriotes. In considering the shift of nationalism from left to right and in pinpointing Deroulede as the major figure
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