Pierre Dominique Costantini (16 February 1889 – 30 June 1986) was a French soldier, journalist, writer.

Life

Costantini fought as an officer in the

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and as a reserve officer in the

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during 1939–1940. He founded the Mouvement social européen. In 1940, he founded the collaborationist Ligue française d’épuration, d’entraide sociale et de collaboration européenne and with Jean Boissel,

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, Pierre Clémenti (politician) and

Eugène Deloncle Eugène Deloncle (20 June 1890 – 17 January 1944) was a French politician and fascist leader who founded the organisation “Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action" (CSAR), better known as . He became a prominent Nazi collaborator during Wo ...

co-founded the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme (LVF). He edited the Ligue's organ, the journal ''

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''. In 1943, he founded the Union des journalistes anti-maçons. He fled to

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in 1944 and was condemned to prison in 1952. He later pursued a journalistic career and published several essays.

Works

* ''La Grande pensée de Bonaparte'', Paris, Éditions Baudinière, 1940. * ''La Haute signification de la Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme'', Paris, L.V.F., irca 1942 * ''Ode au masque de Napoléon'', Paris, Éditions Baudinière, 1943.

Bibliography

* Pascal Ory, ''Les collaborateurs'', éditions du seuil, Paris, 1976. {{DEFAULTSORT:Costantini 1889 births 1986 deaths French fascists French collaborators with Nazi Germany French military personnel of World War I French male essayists 20th-century French essayists 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism People convicted of indignité nationale