Francois Coty
Francois Coty (real name Spoturno) (03/05/1874 - 07/25/1934) was a native of Corsica, a distant relative of Napoleon Bonaparte and one of the richest people in France (in 1929 his fortune was estimated at $ 34 million). From the outset, Kochi intended to use his wealth to influence policy and public opinion. In 1923 he was elected Senator from Corsica, but a year later the Senate annulled the election results in Corsica as a result of information received of vote-buying. This angered Kochi and made him an enemy of the Third Republic.
In 1922, Coty bought Le Figaro , a prestigious conservative newspaper with a circle of readers members of high society. Under the leadership of Kochi formerly moderately conservative organ into a far-right opposition Gazette in which published a fierce anti-communist article that scared away many subscribers.
In 1926, Coty worked with Premier Raymond Puenkare to create Stabilization Fund for the French franc. He "borrowed" the state one hundred million francs (ever since and did not require repayment, in spite of For all his opposition). "In gratitude for this donation to Kochi and did not include a control group fund.
In 1928, Coty has launched a newspaper friend nation "aimed at the proletariat, and soon acquired a very large number of readers (thanks, it was worth significantly less than other similar newspapers, calculated on a poor reader-worker). "Friend of People" wrote about how a boon for Italy became Mussolini campaigned for the overthrow of the parliamentary Republic and the establishment of vozhdistskogo regime.
Kochi was an ardent anti-Semite. In an extensive series of articles in "other people", he blamed Jewish financiers in the conduct of "bloody brutal tyrannical policy that destroys the whole world. He accused the Jews in the emergence of communism, that they have deprived France its pre-war power and glory, robbed her, and in the creation of the global economic crisis. According to Coty, the Jews made an alliance with the German militarists were responsible for the threat of another war. His literary work has not gone unnoticed, and July 1, 1933 the court found him guilty of libel (accusation put forward group of Jewish veterans of the war).
great perfumer has provided financial support to many far-right groups, including Faisceau Georges Valois (in 20 years) and Croix de feu (early 30s), finally deciding to create their own organization. In 1933 he founded the "French solidarity" ( Solidarité Française ), heading it in person.
Members of the organization had uniforms - blue shirts, black berets, boots - and the cry of "France for the French." Koti said that the organization consists of 180 thousand people, including 80,000 - in Paris. Paris police presents data on 15 thousand.
Group participated in the riots in Paris on February 6, 1934 - A failed coup right.
After the death of Coty in the summer of that year, many members joined the movement Fransist "(which is sort of sponsored straight out of fascist Italy), and after the ban of the far-right groups in 1936 - in the new People of the French party, Jacques Doriot.
Eugene Shyuller
Eugène Schueller (20.03.1881 - 23.08.1957)
Shyuller, founder of cosmetics giant L'Oréal , was a sponsor and one of the founders and leaders of the ultra- terrorist organization La Cagoule (Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action), known for its activities in France 30s. The first meeting of the organization held in a building board l'Oréal , and some kagulyary subsequently worked for this cosmetics company.
Many employees L'Oreal were sympathizers Vichy collaborators.
Shyuller himself became a founding member of the collaborationist Social revolutionary movement, responsible for various shares under the patronage of the German occupation authorities, including explosion of the seven synagogues in Paris in October 1941
Jacques Corrèze, kagulyar, during the Vichy - French Legion party Volunteers (against Bolshevism), after "liberation" was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, of which leaves five, after his release went the board L'Oreal and headed to the U.S. companies producing cosmetics for lorealevskoy license.
Fiyol Jean, an activist, "Cahul", later served as in the Vichy police, after the "liberation" of France, fled to Spain, where he worked in the local office L'Oréal .
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