{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) The Independents (french: Indépendants) and later Republican Independents (french: Indépendants républicains, IR) was a right-wing parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies during the

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between 1928 and 1940. The IR was usually considered the parliamentary group on the furthest-right of the Chamber, to the right of the Republican Federation (though their membership sometimes overlapped). Its members were the most conservative members of the legislature: some were independent

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, while others were members of small extreme-right leagues with too few deputies to form their own parliamentary party, such as the Ligue d'Action Francaise or

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. Notable members included the Marquis de La Ferronnays,

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, Jean Ybarnegaray, Jean Le Cour Grandmaison and

Xavier Vallat Xavier Vallat (December 23, 1891 – January 6, 1972), French politician and antisemite who was Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in the wartime Vichy collaborationist government, and was sentenced after World War II to ten years in pr ...

. Most members left in 1938 to found the

(PSF).

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