Provides a new history of parliamentary conservatism and the extreme right in France during the successive crises of the years from 1870 to 1945. Charts royalist opposition to the newly established Republic, the emergence of the nationalist extreme right in the 1890s, and the parallel development of republican conservatism.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Moral Order (1870-1884)


• 3: Boulangism and the Right (1884-1889)


• 4: The Ralliement (1890-1898)


• 5: Nationalism (1898-1900)


• 6: Party Formation (1898-1906)


• 7: Organisation (1906-1914)


• 8: The Union sacrée (1914-1918)


• 9: The Bloc national (1919-1924)


• 10: The Return of the leagues (1924-1926)


• 11: Apogee and Crisis (1928-1932)


• 12: Fascism in France? (1934-1940)


• 13: The right and the Popular Front


• 14: Conclusion


• Further Reading

Kevin Passmore is a specialist in modern French history, and has written also on the question of generic fascism, the history of the relationship between the social sciences and history, and on historiography.