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While recent centenary celebrations held French novelist Georges Bernanos to be a leading Catholic antifascist Resistance thinker, his most original ideas really belong within that history of "French fascism" which has been elucidated in recent studies. His ardent, lifelong admiration for Edouard Drumont (+ 1917), the father of modern anti-Semitism, shaped his new kind of politics. On the very eve of the French defeat of 1940 Bernanos advocated a radical anti-Semitic, anticapitalist, spiritually oriented "national revolution," not unlike that of the prominent writers who would support Marshall Pétain; his case illustrates why it was so difficult to find genuinely antifascist thinkers among the French Catholic intelligentsia of the period.

In my article, I examine the different receptions and interpretations of the French Revolution during the period of the Third Republic up to World War I. I focus on the right-wing adversaries of parliamentary democracy because they used historical imagery to feed populist political discourses and as the fundament of an anti-Semitic and nationalist opposition both to republicanism in general and to the specific republicanism represented by the contemporary rulers, the "les républicains modérés" (moderate republicans) who supported the consolidation of parliamentary democracy. In this context, several authors used elements of psychological methods to explain history, very often at the level of the individual historical actors, such as the Jacobins. The article presents three examples: a text by the philologist Hippolyte Taine, a chapter of the anti-Semitic book "La France juive" (The Jewish France) by Édouard Drumont and the writings of the popular psychologist Gustave Le Bon.

Intro -- À propos de Collection XIX -- Titre -- INTRODUCTION -- LIVRE PREMIER - L'HÉRITIER -- LIVRE DEUXIÈME - LE RÈGNE DE LA BOURGEOISIE -- LIVRE TROISIÈME - LES MONOPOLES -- LIVRE QUATRIÈME - L'IDÉE SOCIALISTE A TRAVERS LE XIXe SIÈCLE -- LIVRE CINQUIÈME - LE SOCIALISME ACTUEL. - LES PARTIS -- LIVRE SIXIÈME - LE SOCIALISME CATHOLIQUE -- LIVRE SEPTIÈME - LE MONDE POLITIQUE -- I - GUERRE A L'EXTÉRIEUR. - BANQUEROUTE A L'INTÉRIEUR -- II - LA GAUCHE OPPORTUNISTES ET RADICAUX -- III - LA DROITE ET LE PARTI CONSERVATEUR -- LIVRE HUITIÈME - LES SIMULACRES -- 1 - LA VIE MONDAINE -- 1 -- II - LE PAUVRE ET SON ROLE DANS LA SOCIÉTÉ ACTUELLE -- III - LE SURSUM CORDA ACADEMIQUE -- IV - L'HONNEUR ET LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR -- V - LE MONDE JUDICIAIRE -- VI - ERLANGER, SES JUGES, SES DÉFENSEURS ET SES VICTIMES -- LIVRE NEUVIÈME - EN FORÊT -- INDEX -- Note au lecteur -- Page de titre de l'édition imprimée -- Copyright