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

François Coty François Coty (; born Joseph Marie François Spoturno ; 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, Coty perfume company, today a multin ...

(1874-1934) as the "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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, but the Paris police thought the number in the city to be closer to 15,000. The small membership did not, however, isolate the group since it found itself integrated in the loose coalition of

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movements that included

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and Pierre Taittinger's Jeunesse Patriotes. The group gained notoriety during the rally, which later became a riot, during the

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in front of the

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. The group was dissolved by a law adopted by the Popular Front government of

Léon Blum André Léon Blum (; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century. He was a disciple of socialist l ...

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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