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‘Peut-on se dire National et ne pas être antijuif ’, quoted by Joly, Darquier de
Pellepoix, p. 51.
19 L’Express, 28 October–4 November 1978.
20 Arnal, p. 38, note 18.
21 Père Lachièze-Rey, January 1999.
22 Paulette Aupoix, January 1999.
23 Abbellan, p. 239; La Défense, 18 May 1920.
24 Tannenbaum, p. 52.
25 Édouard Drumont (1844–1917): Deputy for Algiers 1898–1902. He was hailed
by all anti-Semites before, during and after the Vichy years as the source of
French anti-Semitic theory and principle. An illustrated edition of La France
Juive, published in 1887, contained ‘three illustrations of ritual murder, one of
Huguenot atrocities, and three of Jewish and Masonic responsibility for anticlericalism.
The closing illustration depicted the pious Drumont, prayer beads
in hand, saying a devout Our Father and Hail Mary for France.’ ‘Everything
comes from the Jew, everything returns to the Jew,’ was Drumont’s classic exposition
of the Jew as the persecutor of Catholics and the French Catholic Church,
for which service the book was much praised in Catholic papers such as La
Croix. Jews became the scapegoat, a position they shared with Freemasons,
considered responsible for the separation of Church and state in France in
1905, and so perpetrators of the anticlerical hostility of republican France
towards the French Catholic Church. In Drumont many strands of French
anti-Semitism converged, for Drumont and his most important disciples often
called upon a conservative version of socialism as part of their mass appeal.
His widow lived on until the Occupation to honour his followers with her presence
at anti-Semitic events. In 1963 a group of his literary followers – Maurice
Bardèche, Xavier Vallat, Henry Coston – his ‘friends’ – gathered to celebrate
his work, particularly his thoughts on The Protocols of the Elders of Sion. A support
group seemingly still defends his memory in Paris today.
26 Alphonse Daudet (1840–97): found Drumont a publisher and persuaded a
friend to review La France Juive in Figaro, after which controversy began. The
publisher was Marpon et Flammarion. Drumont had to pay for the first print
run himself; by 1886, after the review, it had sold 100,000 copies.
27 The Marquis de Morès (1858–96): After reading Drumont’s La France Juive,
he founded the Ligue Antisémitique Nationale de France with Drumont. Morès
fell out with Drumont, as Darquier was to fall out with Maurras. The history
of French anti-Semitism is more complex and more peopled than this brief
description of its exponents; these are the ones who influenced Louis Darquier
most.
28 A truer translation of métèques might be ‘wogs’.
29 Arnal, p. 68, note 9.
30 One of Maurras’ joys during the German occupation was that Jewish street