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Gilles Heuré, « Itinéraire d'un propagandiste : Gustave Hervé, de l'antipatriotisme au pétainisme (1871-1944) », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, ID : 10.3406/xxs.1997.3660
A Propagandist's Path: Gustave Hervé from anti-patriotism to Pétainism (1871-1944) Gilles Heure. Gustave Hervé was a lycée professor won over to socialism. He had an active carreer as a militant socialist committed to antimilitarist and antipatriotic combat. His stands led him to imprisonment several times and made him Jean Jaurès' uncomfortable adversary in the beginnings of the SFIO. The disappointment in the workers' movement apathy, the membership in the holy Union, then the antibolshevism are the steps of shift to the right that led him between the two world wars to reinvest his propagandist talents in authoritarian national socialism and to become an admirer of Mussolini. He illustrates the ideological paths that crossed the Third Republic ; his itinerary is that of a polemicist who remained until the end a prisoner of the extremes in which he wrapped himself up.