AHC: Fascist March on Paris

Latest PoD possible, how do right wing militants topple the Third Republic, Mussolini style preferably, sometime 1924-32?
 
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Wolfpaw

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If de La Rocque had had his Croix de Feu join the right-wing rioters during the February 6, 1934 Crisis, there's a very real chance that the government of the Third Republic could have been overthrown and replaced by a fascist-like dictatorship, probably ruled by a Croix de Feu-Action Français coalition.
 
Charles Maurras swallows his honesty and unequivocally endorses Roman Catholicism. Action Francaise isn't condemned by Pius XI. Action Francaise survives as a huge political force into the Depression.
 

cumbria

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In 1936 the French Social Party had 450,000 members.
Which made it the biggest party in France.
It gained about 15% of the vote in the French local elections in 1938 and was on course to take around a quarter of the vote in the 1940 election.
By which time it had around 700,000 members.
The French Popular party had just under 300,000 members in 1936 and both this party, Republican Federation and the Radical party would likely support the Social party.
The party would likely have came to power by democratic means if the war had not intervened.
If the party wished to march on Paris anytime after 1936 would see it with a great chance of success in doing so.
 
The French Popular party had just under 300,000 members in 1936 and both this party, Republican Federation and the Radical party would likely support the Social party.

I disagree.

Although the PPF and the Fédération Républicaine formed a "Freedom Front" in 1937, the Parti Social Français refused to join this coalition. You wouldn't have any functional alliance involving the fascist PPF and the center, center-left Radicals, anyway, this is even beyond ASB. Plus, the PSF itself, although authoritarian, was appaled by PPF's alignement on Italian Fascism and, later, Nazism (the PSF was NOT promoting antisemitism, and purged its Algerian branch from its antisemitic members, for that matter). You could say that the movement went from quasi-fascism during the Croix-de-Feu era to center-right, populist, or even "pre-gaullist" positions in 1938-1939.

Would the PSF have the largest or the second largest group in the Chambre, it would ally with the Fédération Républicaine, various center-right small parties (right-wing Radicals, Christian-Democrats). An alliance with the Radical party is possible with Daladier, even more with Edouard Herriot in charge.
 
Isn't that what Action Francaise did in OTL?
No, Maurras endorsed Catholicism as a means of maintaining national stability but declined to endorse it's truthfulness. The pope felt used and condemned the movement in 1926. He could have just pretended to be a faithful Catholic, and the Camelots du Roi could have kept on terrorizing liberals and socialists at the Sorbonne.
 
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