AHC/WI: Make Fascism (or a similar ideology) take power in France before WWII

CastIron

Ever since I read Neither Left Nor Right: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Stirnhell, I've been intrigued by his central thesis that Fascism wasn't an only Italian/German affair, and the most of the policies espoused by later fascist regimes (anti-democracy, Corporatist economics, to some extent politicized anti-semitism) were formulated by anti-parlimentarians in France well before Mussolini and Hitler.

So, what would it take for Fascism, or something similar, to be born in France?

I think it would take both a much more organized political Right in French politics and a French defeat in the First World War to get fascists or someone adjacent to them to rise to power.

Also, if we take fascist France by the 1930s as a given, how does thus effect world history? Would they be eager to make war on Germany (if they lost WWI), or would the situation be similar to Franco's Spain?
 

thaddeus

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CastIron said:
So, what would it take for Fascism, or something similar, to be born in France?

I think it would take both a much more organized political Right in French politics and a French defeat in the First World War to get fascists or someone adjacent to them to rise to power.

Also, if we take fascist France by the 1930s as a given, how does thus effect world history? Would they be eager to make war on Germany (if they lost WWI), or would the situation be similar to Franco's Spain?
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my understanding the French government avoided direct involvement in the Spanish Civil War because they felt it could lead to a civil war or near civil war within their own country?

so possibly have a disastrous foray into Spanish Civil War, and have a Petain-led government prior to WWII, albeit they would not be exactly a fascist government but fairly close?
 
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