February 6, 1934: a far-right riot shakes the Republic in Paris. An attempted fascist coup for some, a tragedy for patriots for others.
Today it remains the symbol of the fragility of the parliamentary regime. It is the harbinger of the rise of an authoritarian temptation which will find its full measure in collaboration. The far right relies on the resentment of veterans of the Great War and the rise in unemployment. An extreme right obsessed with the “Jewish and Freemason conspiracy’