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TheRevolutionary Nationalist Groups (French:Groupes nationalistes révolutionnaires, GNR) were aFrench far-right organization which gathered therevolutionary nationalist tendency between 1976 and 1978.
Founded byFrançois Duprat and his friend,Alain Renault, they structured the radical tendency of theNational Front (FN) after the rallying to the FN of theFédération d'Action Nationale et Européenne (FANE) in 1974.[1]
The GNR's existence was at first restricted to theCahiers européens, a magazine launched in the frame of theNew European Order, a neo-fascist Europe-wide alliance.Mark Fredriksen, leader of theFédération d'action nationale et européenne (FANE), who was breaking with the New European Order, became co-director of theCahiers européens-Notre Europe until May 1975.
Jean-Marie Le Pen called for GNR members to take membership in theNational Front in June 1974. The GNR disappeared following the assassination of Duprat on March 18, 1978. GNR activists broke the same year with the FN, joined with parts of the FN (in particular Michel Faci "Leloup", former member of theFront national de la jeunesse, FNJ, the youth organization of the FN,[1] and current member of theFrench and European Nationalist Party).
Neo-nazi members relaunched theFANE and its newspaper,Notre Europe, while activists closer to theThird Position (Jacques Bastide and Patrick Gorre[1]) joinedJean-Gilles Malliarakis to found, on February 11, 1979, theRevolutionary Nationalist Movement [fr] (Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire), which became in 1985Third Way (Troisième Voie).