Key facts
- Abbreviation
- AF
- General secretary
- Olivier Perceval
- Founders
- Maurice Pujo Charles Maurras Henri Vaugeois George de Villebois-Mareuil
- Founded
- 20 June 1899 ; 126 years ago ( 1899-06-20 )
- Split from
- Ligue de la patrie française
- Headquarters
- 10 rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, 75001 Paris
- Newspaper
- L'action française La Restauration Nationale
- Student wing
- Fédération nationale des étudiants d'Action Française
- Youth wing
- Camelots du Roi
- Women s wing
- Ladies of the French Action
- Think tank
- Institut d'Action française
- Membership
- 3,000 (early 2018 estimation</span>"}]]}'>est. )
- Ideology
- Orléanism National conservatism Historical doctrine: , List Maurrassisme Corporate statism National syndicalism Anti-parliamentarism French integralism
- Political position
- Far-right
- Religion
- Roman Catholicism
- International affiliation
- International Monarchist Conference
- Colours
- Royal blue Yellow
- Slogan
- All that is national is ours
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political organization
- Country
- French Third Republic
- Founded by
- Maurice Pujo
- Official website
- www.actionfrancaise.net
- Political ideology
- sovereigntism
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- inception
- 1899-06-20
- topic's main category
- Category:Action Française
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- Action française
- social media followers
- 34557
- short name
- AF
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Encyclopedic overview
Action française ( French pronunciation: [aksjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz], AF; English: French Action) is a far-right, monarchist and nationalist political movement in France.
The name was also given to a journal associated with the movement, L'Action française, sold by its own youth organization, the Camelots du Roi. The movement and the journal were founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois in 1899, as a nationalist reaction against the intervention of left-wing intellectuals on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus. The royalist militant Charles Maurras quickly joined Action française and became its principal ideologist. Under the influence of Maurras, Action française became royalist, counter-revolutionary (objecting to the legacy of the French Revolution), anti-parliamentary, and pro-decentralization, espousing corporatism, integralism, and Roman Catholicism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Action Française” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.