The Revolutionary Nationalist Groups (french: Groupes nationalistes révolutionnaires, GNR) were a French far-right organization which gathered the nationalist revolutionary tendency between 1976 and 1978. Founded by

François Duprat François Duprat (26 October 1940 – 18 March 1978) was an essayist and politician, a founding member of the Front National party and part of the leadership until his assassination in 1978. Duprat was one of the main architects in the introduct ...

and his friend,

Alain Renault Alain may refer to: People * Alain (given name), common given name, including list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Alain (surname) * "Alain", a pseudonym for cartoonist Daniel Brustlein * Alain, a standard author abbreviation u ...

, they structured the radical tendency of the National Front (FN) after the rallying to the FN of the '' Fédération d'Action Nationale et Européenne'' (FANE) in 1974.Annuaire de l'extrême droite en France

The GNR's newspaper

The GNR's existence was at first restricted to the ''Cahiers européens'', a magazine launched in the frame of the

New European Order The New European Order (NEO) was a neo-fascist, Europe-wide alliance set up in 1951 to promote pan-European nationalism. The NEO, led by René Binet and Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, was a more radical splinter group that broke away from the European ...

, a neo-fascist Europe-wide alliance. Mark Fredriksen, leader of the '' Fédération d'action nationale et européenne'' (FANE), who was breaking with the New European Order, became co-director of the ''Cahiers européens-Notre Europe'' until May 1975.

The radical tendency of the National Front

Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (, born 20 June 1928) is a French far-right politician who served as President of the National Front from 1972 to 2011. He also served as Honorary President of the National Front from 2011 to 2015. Le Pen graduated fro ...

called for GNR members to take membership in the National Front in June 1974. The GNR disappeared following the assassination of Duprat on March 18, 1978. GNR activists broke the same year with the FN, joined with parts of the FN (in particular Michel Faci "Leloup", former member of the '' Front national de la jeunesse'', FNJ, the youth organization of the FN, and current member of the French and European Nationalist Party). Neo-nazi members relaunched the FANE and its newspaper, ''Notre Europe'', while activists closer to the

Third Position The Third Position is a set of neo-fascist political ideologies that were first described in Western Europe following the Second World War. Developed in the context of the Cold War, it developed its name through the claim that it represented a ...

(Jacques Bastide and Patrick Gorre ) joined Jean-Gilles Malliarakis to found, on February 11, 1979, the (''Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire''), which became in 1985

Third Way The Third Way is a centrist political position that attempts to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of centre-right economic policies with centre-left social policies. The Third Way was born from ...

(''Troisième Voie'').

References

{{reflist Fascist parties in France French nationalism Neo-fascist organizations Third Position

The GNR's newspaper

The radical tendency of the National Front

See also

References