The Front paysan was a group founded in 1934 and consisted of: * The

French Agrarian and Peasant Party The French Agrarian and Peasant Party (, PAPF) was a French political party founded in 1927 during the French Third Republic by Gabriel Fleurent. The PAPF was founded on a corporatist, right-wing populist and agrarian program after Fleurent vi ...

* The

Comités de défense paysanne The Comités de Défense Paysanne or French peasants, Peasant Defense Committees was a network of radical Agrarianism, agrarian groups France founded in 1929. Foundation There had previously been groups that espoused agrarian militancy such as ...

* The

Union nationale des syndicats agricoles The Union nationale des syndicats agricoles (UNSA) was collection of French farming unions that was active in the 1930s. It had originally been called the Union centrale des syndicats agricoles (UCSA) but in 1934 changed its name to the Union nati ...

Jacques Le Roy Ladurie served as its general secretary. It published the journal Syndicats paysans. In the

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...

Henry Dorgeres the founder of the Comités de défense paysanne stood unsuccessfully for the

Loir-et-Cher Loir-et-Cher (, ) is a Departments of France, department in the Centre-Val de Loire Regions of France, region of France. It is named after two rivers which run through it, the Loir in its northern part and the Cher (river), Cher in its southern p ...

department under the Front paysan's banner, where he was narrowly defeated in the

second round of voting The two-round system (TRS or 2RS), sometimes called ballotage, top-two runoff, or two-round plurality, is a single-winner electoral system which aims to elect a member who has support of the majority of voters. The two-round system involves one ...

by the

Radical-Socialist The Radical Party (, ), officially the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party ( ), is a liberal and social-liberal political party in France. Since 1971, to prevent confusion with the Radical Party of the Left (PRG), it has also bee ...

candidate

Émile Laurens Émile Laurens was a French politician born on 29 January 1884 in Réquista (Aveyron (department), Aveyron) and died on 16 June 1940 in Blois (Loir-et-Cher). He was recognized as having died for France. He replaced the former and future Prime Mi ...

. The Front's ambiguous view towards Republican institutions meant that it did not have support from the Croix de Feu. The Front fell apart in 1936 due to differences in political strategy.

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* * * {{France-history-stub Organizations established in 1934 Defunct agrarian political parties in Europe French far right leagues