The French League (: "French League for

purging A purge is the forcible removal of undesirable people from political activity, etc. Purge or The Purge may also refer to: * Purge (occupied Japan), the forcible removal of undesirable Japanese from public service during occupation of Japan * G ...

, mutual aid and European collaboration") was a

collaborationist Wartime collaboration is cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime, and in the words of historian Gerhard Hirschfeld, "is as old as war and the occupation of foreign territory". The term ''collaborator'' dates to t ...

French movement founded by

Pierre Costantini Pierre Dominique Costantini (1889–1986) was a French soldier, journalist, writer and Bonapartist militant. Life Costantini fought as an officer in the First World War and as a reserve officer in the armée de l'air during 1939–1940. He founde ...

in September 1940. Its journal was entitled ''

L'Appel ''L'Appel'' (''The Calling'') was a collaborationist periodical of Vichy France. It was the organ of the collaborationist French League and edited by the League's leader, Pierre Costantini of the Parti populaire français (PPF). The paper was e ...

''.

Bibliography

* Pierre Philippe Lambert, Gérard Le Marec, ''Partis et mouvements de la collaboration'', éditions Jacques Grancher, 1993. *

Pascal Ory Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1 ...

, ''Les Collaborateurs'', éditions du seuil, Paris, 1976, {{France-hist-stub French collaboration during World War II French far right leagues