synarchy movement of empire book ii - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic ...

There was another group called {Le Fascisme}, which was founded
by Marcel Bucard, and which was working openly in collaboration with
Hitler and Mussolini. The famous "Traitor of Stuttgart", Paul Ferdonnet,
who had become a French language broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during
the war, was a member of this group.
{La Croix de Feu} was yet another street organization, which had
been founded in 1927, by war veterans and was headed by retired Lieutenant
Colonel Francois La Rocque, an associate of the Duke Pozzo di Borgo. It
was the joint leadership of the Croix de Feu, the Action Francaise, and the
Jeunesse Patriotes, which had broken up the several thousand International
Disarmament Congress, held at the Trocadero, on November 27, 1931. It
was Pierre Laval and Andre Tardieu who secretly funded La Rocque with
government funds, while Ernest Mercier and Francois Coty provided the
private funds. The Croix de Feu claimed to have about 60,000 members
nationwide, and 20,000 in Paris.
It was this coordinated grouping of Right-wing fascists and street
fighters that stormed the Chambers of Deputies in Paris, on February 6,
1934, in an attempted coup against the Daladier government. After three
votes of confidence, the Daladier government finally got a majority, thanks
to the support of Leon Blum, and the deputies were able to escape the
Chamber of Deputies without getting hurt before the storm troopers arrived.
The coup had failed because La Rocque did not show up on time, and
the Chamber of Deputies had left for the day. It was much later, on June 18,
of 1946, that Leon Blum testified before the Parliamentary investigating
Committee, declaring that "If, above all…the [Croix de Feu] column
advancing on the Left Bank under the orders of Colonel La Rocque had not
stopped in front of the slender barricade of the Rue de Bourgogne, there can
be no doubt that the Assembly would have been invaded by the
insurrection…No doubt either that the deputies would have been chased
from the Chamber and a provisional government proclaimed as was done in
the same place in 1848, and September 4, 1870." (Shirer. P.219.)
February 6, 1934, however, was the bloodiest day of insurrection in
Paris since the days of Commune of 1871 and it was a total failure. Colonel
La Rocque had failed to cease the government on behalf of the Duc de
Guise. After the fascist Left had their revolution in 1789, the fascist Right
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