Solidarité Française ("French Solidarity") was a Frenchfar-right league founded in 1933 by the perfume manufacturerFrançois Coty (1874-1934) as the "Parti national corporatif républicain".[1]
After Coty's death, it was commanded byMajor Jean Renaud, members dressed in blue shirts, black berets and jackboots and shouted the slogan "France for the French".[2]
The movement claimed a strength of 180,000 in 1934, with 80,000 inParis, but the Paris police thought the number in the city to be closer to 15,000. The small membership did not, however, isolate the group since it found itself integrated in the loose coalition offar-right movements that includedCharles Maurras'sAction Française andPierre Taittinger'sJeunesse Patriotes.
The group gained notoriety during the rally, which later became a riot, during the6 February 1934 crisis in front of thePalais Bourbon. The group was dissolved by a law adopted by thePopular Front government ofLéon Blum in June 1936. Many members ofSolidarité Française subsequently joinedJacques Doriot's fascistParti populaire français (PPF).
