L'héritage de Drumont dans les années 1930

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As early as the beginning of the thirties, the main actors of the antisemitic activism placed their fight under the patronage of Édouard Drumont, who died in loneliness in 1917. In front of the growth and success rate of nazi antisemitism, the pious invocation of the author of La France juive, appeared as the only obvious attitude, wether be it to assert the compatibility between these doctrines and those of the Weltanschauung of Hitler, or on the contrary, in order to refute them. Two main tendencies appear : that of the orthodox supporters of Drumont who were almost immediately tempted by the nazi Germany and that of the Action française, who proclaimed their being the heirs of Drumont with some reservations. In the Royalist movement, the memory of Drumont becomes a means to try and make use of it in order to question the captation by Maurras of the legacy of Drumont, and, as a consequence, the ideological authority which Maurras claimed to have upon French nationalism, and this can be proved in  La Grande Peur des bien-pensants by Georges Bernanos (1931).