Croix de Feu (English spelling)

Japanese: クロア･ド･フー（英語表記）Croix de Feu

It was founded in 1927 under the patronage of perfume manufacturer François Coty as a fellowship for those who had received the War Cross in the first world war. Its name means "Artillery Cross". When Lieutenant Colonel François de La Rocque took over the leadership in 1930, it transformed into a mass political organization, absorbing the radical right-wing bourgeois youth with the slogan "Family, Work, Fatherland", and was feared as the most powerful fascist movement. In 1936, it was dissolved by the Blum government, and changed its name to the French Socialist Party, becoming a political party.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1927年に香水生産者コティーFrançois Cotyの後援の下に，大戦で戦争十字章を受けたものの親睦団体として組織された。〈砲火の十字団〉の意。30年にド･ラ･ロックFrançois de La Rocque中佐が指導権を握ると大衆的政治団体に変化し，“家族･労働･祖国”というスローガンをかかげて急進的右翼のブルジョア青年を吸収し，もっとも強力なファシズム運動として警戒された。36年，ブルム政府に解散を命ぜられ，フランス社会党と改名，政党に転じた。

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