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The Fair has come to town. It is September 1993, the late summer sun is shining and the various factions of the French far Right have gathered for a family day out. The National Front is holding its thirteenth annual Fête Bleu Blanc Rouge at the Pelouse de Reuilly, itself a small corner of the Bois de Vincennes, a vast, green wooded area, south-east of the centre of Paris. Once a royal hunting ground, the land was given to the City of Paris by Napoleon III to create a park for public use. There is a boating lake, flower gardens and the capital’s largest zoo. But today, a menagerie of a rather different kind is on display.
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Les Chouans, a name given to many of the armed bands that rose up against the Revolutionary regime, their name derived from that given to the leader of one group, Jean Chouan. See J.-C. Martin, Blancs et Bleus dans la Vendée déchirée (Paris: Découvertes-Gallimard, 1990).
See E. Weber, France, Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 112–13.
See J. Martin, L’Empire Triomphant 1871/1936, Tome 2, Maghreb, Indochine, Madagascar, îles et comptoirs (Paris: Denoël, 1990), pp. 85–116.
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Marcus, J. (1995). Introduction: The National Front’s World. In: The National Front and French Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24032-6_1
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