Solidarité Française ("French Solidarity") was a French far-right league founded in 1933 by perfume manufacturer

François Coty François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno in Corsica ; 3 May 1874 – 25 July 1934) was a French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Coty perfume company, today a m ...

(1874-1934) as a "Parti national corporatif républicain". After Coty's death, it was commanded by

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Jean Renaud, members dressed in blue shirts, black berets, and jackboots, and shouted the slogan "''France for the French''". The movement claimed a strength of 180,000 in 1934, with 80,000 in

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; the Parisian police thought the number in Paris closer to 15,000. The small membership did not however isolate the group: the Solidarité Française found itself integrated in the loose coalition of

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movements such as

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and Pierre Taittinger's

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. The group gained notoriety during the rally and later riot during the

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, in front of the Parliament seat in the

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. It was dissolved by a law adopted by the

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government of

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in June 1936. Many members of ''Solidarité Française'' subsequently joined

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's fascist

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(PPF).

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