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26 Tannenbaum, p. 224. These hundred deputies wanted heavier sanctions against
Italy for its war on Ethiopia.
27 The elders of anti-Semitism, men born in the 1860s, were all editors or journalists.
As well as Lucien Pemjean, the lieutenant of the Marquis de Morès,
there was Urbain Gohier (1862–1951), professional anti-Semite, journalist,
editor and writer, who published the first French edition of the Protocols in
1920. A noted polemicist, financed by Coty, and a hounder of Maurras and
Daudet, he was nearly eighty when France fell, but continued his vituperative
journalism throughout the Occupation. He was convicted after the Liberation
but his age spared him imprisonment. Jean Drault (1866–1951) was another
professional anti-Semite and journalist. Drumont’s closest disciple, he also
wrote successful humorous books for children. Associated with Coston and
Boissel, a vicious collaborationist during the Occupation, he edited La France
au travail until in 1943 the Germans gave him the editorship of the pinnacle
of anti-Semitic publications, Au Pilori. Arrested in August 1944, he was imprisoned
at Drancy, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, and freed in 1949.
Joining these fathers of anti-Semitism were those born a decade later, men
such as the fanatic and alcoholic Paul Sézille (1879–1944), another wounded
and decorated First World War veteran, the mystic Hitlerian Alphonse de
Chateaubriant (1877–1951) and the demented anglophobe Paul Chack
(1876–1945). Louis Darquier’s generation came next. All of them were veterans
of the trenches, bearing wounds and honours in varying degrees. Louis was
easily the most unscathed physically, but shared their eccentricities, rages,
conspiracy theories and paranoia. Louis’ continued subservience to Charles
Maurras managed to alienate all of them:
Jean Boissel (1891–1951): Severely disabled First World War veteran, he lost
his right eye and wore an eye patch like Vallat. Professional anti-Semite, fascist,
journalist. A prolific founder of minuscule parties, papers and groups, his prose
was even more poisonous than Darquier’s. Visited Germany, appearing with
Streicher at a Nuremberg rally, and met Hitler in 1935. Subsidised by the Nazis
in the Darquier manner; he was often in prison or in court. Participated in the
foundation of the LVF in 1941. A refugee in Sigmaringen, he was arrested and
condemned to death in 1946, but the sentence was commuted to life with hard
labour. He died in prison.
Marcel Bucard (1895–1946): First World War veteran, with honours, journalist
and failed politician. Founder of the Francistes, the ‘Paris Blueshirts’ (not
to be confused with Coston’s group of the same name), his newspaper Le
Franciste, and his political party after June 1936, was the Parti Unitaire Français.
Originally financed by François Coty. No Jews or Freemasons were allowed.
A neighbour of Darquier’s in the Ternes, he was funded by the Nazis, but was
an advocate of Mussolini’s approach and, again like Darquier, was financially
questionable and often in court. A Catholic in the Vallat mould, he was also