Jeune Nation

Jeune Nation
Leader	Pierre Sidos
President	François Sidos
Founded	October 22, 1949; 74 years ago (1949-10-22)
Dissolved	May 15, 1958 (1958-05-15)
Succeeded by	Parti Nationaliste (1958–1959)
Newspaper	Jeune Nation (1958–1960)
Membership	3,000–4,000 (at its height)
Ideology	French nationalism Neo-fascism
Political position	Far-right
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Jeune Nation (French: [ʒœn nɑsjɔ̃]; English: Young Nation) was a French nationalist, neo-Pétainist and neo-fascist far-right movement founded in 1949 by Pierre Sidos and his brothers. Inspired by Fascist Italy and Vichy France, the group attracted support from many young nationalists during the Algerian war (1954–62), especially in the French colonial army. Promoting street violence and extra-parliamentarian insurrection against the Fourth Republic, members hoped the turmoils of the wars of decolonization would lead to a coup d'état followed by the establishment of a nationalist regime. Jeune Nation was the most significant French neo-fascist movement during the 1950s;^[1] it gathered at its height 3,000 to 4,000 members.^[2]

Suspected of a bomb attack in the National Assembly, Jeune Nation was dissolved by official decree during the May 1958 crisis. The organization nonetheless survived through the 1960s under the shape of several other nationalist organizations, primarily the Federation of Nationalist Students (1960–1967), the Organisation Armée Secrète (1961–1962), Europe-Action (1963–1966), Occident (1964–1968) and L'Œuvre Française (1968–2013), all established by former Jeune Nation members.