Word: poujadistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confession. In this jittery atmosphere, the ultra-right-wing weekly Rivarol appeared with a mocking, triumphant story. A onetime Deputy of the crackpot Poujadist right wing, one Robert Pesquet, 42, charged that he had faked the attempt on Mitterrand's life, and he had done it in connivance with Mitterrand himself. Leftist Mitterrand, said Pesquet, had conceived the scheme as a means of provoking a police crackdown on the rightists, had worked out the details in a series of three rendezvous with Pesquet. The only hitch, according to Pesquet, had come after Mitterrand had jumped the fence into...
...Paris streets loudspeakers rasped out the orders of tough Maurice Papon, recently brought from Algeria to become police prefect of Paris: "Use your clubs! Use your clubs!" His men complied. In the Place de la Concorde a mob of 6,000 right-wingers led by burly ex-Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen -sporting the tricolor sash of a Deputy and the green beret of his old paratroop regiment -came face to face with rifle-toting police drawn up in columns four deep. For a time the mob hesitated. Then, with cries of "Algeria is French!" and "Throw the Deputies into...
...trust its allies "we are before a crisis of extreme gravity," Conservative Deputy Raymond Triboulet jeeringly retorted: "You're not before one, you're in one." At Gaillard's protestations of U.S. solidarity with France, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a right-wing tough elected as a Poujadist, interrupted: "Of the two dangers that menace the independence of France-Bolshevik Russia and the United States-the latter is by far the worse." Then the banderilleros retired, and Gaillard found himself face to face with burly Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, the man whom Frenchmen have come to call Jacques...
There were only a few grumbles. Jacques Soustelle, Gaullist ex-governor of Algeria, pronounced his verdict: "Nasser wins only because he hasn't lost." Mollet entered an Assembly dissatisfied by partial victory. He saw his chance when a Poujadist Deputy, going too far, complained: "Our paratroopers died for the Queen of England." Wrapping his fingers around a floor microphone, Mollet shouted: "Never forget that if we are able to sit on these benches and speak as free men it is because from 1940 to 1941 the British held on alone." Every Deputy but the Poujadists and Communists gave...
After three days of closed-door conferences guarded by stalwart, arm-banded youths of the Poujadist Service d'Ordre, the 400 delegates approved Poujade's program. All talk of mutiny was quelled by Poujade's threat to resign. "If you want me as active chairman," he said, "you must support me. The day I have to take the scalpel, my hand will not shake. But remember, the surgeon never operates without the full consent of the family." With a shouted ovation, the family gave its consent...