L’idole brisée : la droite belge francophone et la crise morale de la France (1934-1938) ; The broken idol: the Belgian French-speaking right wing and the moral crisis in France (1934-1938)

peer reviewed ; The French-speaking right wing in Belgium has always granted a paramount place to France in its ideological cosmography. The concept of everlasting France, of her “mission”, of the part she could play on the international scene are topics wondered about constantly in intellectual and middle-class circles. The thirties and mostly the Popular Front era provide the Conservatives with a splendid opportunity to describe the future of their cultural icon with awe: the more the international context is threatening, the more France seems to have become fragile, isolated and going down... Mehr ...