Epinglette de l'Union de Défense des Commerçants et des Artisans

The Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans (French: Union de défense des commerçants et artisans) was a French political movement from 1953 to 1962.

History

The Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans was founded in 1953 by

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. It published a newspaper, ''Fraternité française''. It also had a hymn, written by André Montagard in 1955. Poujade recruited up to 800,000 members. In 1956, 2.5 million French people voted for them, electing 42 new members of the

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. In the assembly, they were called the ''Union et fraternité françaises''. The movement initially promoted the repeal of taxes for small business owners. By 1958, they were strongly opposed to

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's policy of decolonisation in

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. The Union dissolved in 1962, due to infighting.

References

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