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Henri-Auguste d'Halluin (February 6, 1897,Wasquehal – January 22, 1985), known by the pseudonymHenri Dorgères, was a French political activist. He is best known for theComités de Défense Paysanne which he set up in the interwar period.
Henri Dorgères was born in 1897, inWasquehal, a small town in north of France. He was interred by the Germans during theFirst World War.[1] After passing his baccalaureate he studied law for two years. As a student he was an activeroyalist.[2] While working in public relations in Wasquehal, he married Cécile Cartigny in Lille on April 23, 1921.[3]
In 1921, he moved toRennes, inBrittany, to work as a journalist. In 1925 he became an editor of the regional Catholic dailyLe Nouvelliste de Bretagne and in 1928 became the editor in chief of the farming journalProgrès agricole de l'Ouest.[4] During that time it was claimed that he became a member of theCamelots du Roi ofAction Française.[5] It was as a journalist in Rennes in 1929[6] that he founded his first Peasants' Defense Committee. These committees had action squads known as Greenshirts,[7] which became a general name for the organisation.
In 1934 he claimed that a system like Italian fascism would resolve a lot of problems in French agriculture.[8] There is an ongoing historical debate as to whether, or how far, Dorgeres could be seen as fascist.[9]
During this time he wrote the book "Haut les fourches" ("Raise the Pitchforks"), laying out an anti-Republican and anti-Parliamentaryback to the land program.[2]
^"Je crois au développement d'un mouvement de genre fasciste (...) Si vous saviez, paysans français, ce que Mussolini a fait pour les paysans italiens, vous demanderiez tous un Mussolini pour la France?" translated "I believe in the development of a movement, somewhat in the style of fascism (...) If only, peasants of France, you knew what Mussolini did for Italian peasants, you might want someone like Mussolini in France." fromProgrès Agricole de l'Ouest, 4 March 1935, quoted in Ory, p 185
