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“... a great deal to Vichy’s aspiration to technocratic efficiency. In 1978 the Israeli historian Zeev Sternhell went further in his book La Droite révolutionnaire, 1885-1914: les origines françaises du fascisme, arguing that France did not dabble in fascism only during the dark 1940s: in fact, it was where fascism first emerged, as the freakish ...”

“... survey of Fascist thought in France – his third large book on this theme. (Bredin and Sternhell have, incidentally, each been well served by their translators, though in both cases there is a tendency to over-literalism.) Sternhell provides a comprehensive and subtle guide to the writings and thought of the ...”