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'''Henri Petit''' (alias: '''Henri-Robert''' or '''Henry-Robert''') (1899–1985) was a [[France|French]] [[journalist]], [[collaborationist]] under the [[Vichy regime]] and [[French far-right|far-right activist]].
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'''Henri Petit''' (alias: '''Henri-Robert''' or '''Henry-Robert''') (1899–1985) was a French [[journalist]], [[Collaborationism#France|collaborationist]] under the [[Vichy regime]], and [[French far-right|far-right activist]].


Henri Petit wrote several [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] and anti-[[Freemasonry|masonic]] books and collaborated with [[Henry Coston]]. He presented himself as an "anti-Jew" candidate for the [[French legislative election, 1936|1936 legislative elections]], won by the [[Popular Front (France)|Popular Front]]. Petit then broke with Coston, who accused him of having stolen him money.<ref>[[Pierre-André Taguieff]] (dir.), ''L'antisémitisme de plume - 1940-1944 - études et documents'', Berg International Éditeurs, 1999.</ref> In 1937, he became the secretary general of [[Louis Darquier de Pellepoix]]'s ''[[Comité antijuif de France]]'' (Anti-Jew Committee of France) &mdash; Darquier de Pellepoix replaced in May 1942 [[Xavier Vallat]] as "Commissioner for Jewish Affairs."
Henri Petit wrote several [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] and [[Anti-Masonry|anti-Masonic]] books, and worked with far-right journalist [[Henry Coston]], creator of an "Anti-Jewish Youth" organisation. Petit presented himself as an "anti-Jew" candidate for the [[1936 French legislative election|1936 legislative elections]], which were won by the left-wing [[Popular Front (France)|Popular Front]]. Petit then broke with Coston, who accused him of having stolen him money.<ref name="Taguieff">{{cite book|editor1-last=Taguieff|editor1-first=Pierre-André|editor1-link=Pierre-André Taguieff|title=L'antisémitisme de plume. 1940-1944. Études et documents|date=27 March 1999|publisher=Berg International Éditeurs|isbn=2911289161|language=French}}</ref>{{clarify|date=December 2013|reason=Who accused whom of having stolen whose money?}} In 1937, Petit became the secretary general of [[Louis Darquier de Pellepoix]]'s ''[[Comité antijuif de France]]'' (Anti-Jewish Committee of France). In May 1942, Darquier de Pellepoix replaced [[Xavier Vallat]] as Vichy France's Commissioner for Jewish Affairs.{{elucidate|date=December 2013|reason=How does this affect Petit?}}


Petit's work influenced the writer [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], who shifted more and more to the far-right during his literary career.<ref>Céline: ''« Tous les Aryens devraient avoir lu [[Edouard Drumont|Drummont]] [sic]. Plus actuels : [[Hugo De Vries|De Vries]], [[Léon de Poncins|De Poncins]], [[Werner Sombart|Sombart]], [[Stanley Chamberlain]] ; plus près : [[George Montandon|Montandon]], Darquier de Pellepoix, [[Jean Boissel|Boissel]], H.-R. Petit, Dasté, H. Coston, des Essards, Alex, Santo, etc... » in ''L'école des cadavres'', Éd. Denoël, 1938, p. 35.</ref><ref>Céline, ''Bagatelles pour un massacre'', Ed. Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1937.</ref> Céline entertained a literary correspondency with Henri Petit.<ref>Andrea Loselle, « ''Celine's "Bagatelles pour un massacre": An Example of Failure'' », ''Central Review'', Vol. 6, No. 2, « ''Fascist Aesthetics'' » (Summer, 1989), pp. 56-72</ref>
Petit carried on a literary correspondence with the influential novelist [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Loselle|first1=Andrea|title=Celine's ''Bagatelles pour un massacre'': An Example of Failure|journal=[[South Central Review]]|date=Summer 1989|volume=6|issue=2|pages=56–72|doi=10.2307/3189556|jstor=3189556 |quote=Special edition on Fascist Aesthetics}}</ref> Petit's work influenced Céline, who shifted more and more to the far right during his career.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Céline|first1=Louis-Ferdinand|authorlink1=Louis-Ferdinand Céline|title=L'école des cadavres|date=1938|publisher=[[Éd. Denoël]]|pages=23|url=https://archive.org/stream/LecoleDesCadavres/LFCecole_djvu.txt|accessdate=7 March 2016|language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Scullion|editor1-first=Rosemarie|editor2-last=Solomon|editor2-first=Philip H.|editor3-last=Spear|editor3-first=Thomas C.|title=Céline and the Politics of Difference|date=1995|publisher=[[University Press of New England]]|location=[[Hanover, NH]]|isbn=0874516978|page=39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lh0ROelflQ0C&pg=PA39|accessdate=7 March 2016|quote=[From Céline's ''L’École des cadavres'']: All [[Aryan race|Aryans]] should read [[Edouard Drumont|Drummont]]. More current: [[Herman de Vries de Heekelingen|De Vries]], [[Léon de Poncins|De Poncins]], [[Werner Sombart|Sombart]], [[Houston Stewart Chamberlain|Stanley [sic] Chamberlain]]; closer to home: [[George Montandon|Montandon]], [[Darquier de Pellepoix]], [[Jean Boissel|Boissel]], '''H.-R. Petit''', [[Dasté]], [[H. Coston]], [[des Essards]], [[Alex (author)|Alex]], [[Santo (author)|Santo]], etc...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Céline|first1=Louis-Ferdinand|authorlink1=Louis-Ferdinand Céline|title=Bagatelles pour un massacre|date=1937|publisher=Ed. Denoël & Steele|location=Paris|url=https://archive.org/stream/BagatellesPourUnMassacre/bagat_djvu.txt|accessdate=7 March 2016}}</ref>


In 1939, Petit traveled to [[Nazi Germany]] to work in the "World Center of Anti-Semitic Propaganda". He then returned to France after the proclamation by Marshal [[Philippe Pétain]] of the [[Vichy regime]], and became in 1940 the chief editor of the Collaborationist newspaper ''[[Au Pilori|Le Pilori]]'', before being replaced by another team. Petit worked directly with the German services of [[Nazi propaganda]] and was, because of that, not really appreciated in Collaborationist circles.<ref>[[Pierre-André Taguieff]] (dir.), ''op. cit.'', Berg International Éditeurs, 1999.</ref> At the end of [[World War II]], in August 1944, he left for Germany where his two sons worked as volunteers in the German Army.
In 1939, Petit traveled to [[Nazi Germany]] to work in the "World Center of Anti-Semitic Propaganda". He returned to France after the proclamation by Marshal [[Philippe Pétain]] of the [[Vichy regime]] in 1940, and became the chief editor of the collaborationist newspaper ''[[Au Pilori|Le Pilori]]'' before being replaced for having criticized the [[Pierre Laval]] too harshly. Petit worked directly with the [[Nazi propaganda]] services and was, because of that, not really appreciated in collaborationist circles, being seen as becoming more German than French.<ref name="Taguieff"/> In August 1944, he left for Germany where his two sons worked as [[Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts|volunteers in the German Army]].


On 18 November 1947, during the ''[[épuration légale]]'' period, he was condemned ''[[in absentia]]'' to 20 years of prison and to "national degradation" (''[[dégradation nationale]]''). He then lived in [[wiktionary:clandestinity|clandestinity]] in [[Belleville, Paris]], and in [[Meudon]]. Amnestied in 1959, he then published an [[astrology]] magazine, before collaborating with the [[Fédération d'action nationale et européenne]] (FANE) [[neo-Nazi]] group created in 1966 by [[Mark Fredriksen]]. Petit was sentenced several times for "incitation to [[hate speech|racial hatred]]."
On 18 November 1947, during the ''[[Épuration légale]]'' ("legal purge"), Petit was condemned ''[[trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' to 20 years of prison and to "national degradation" (''[[dégradation nationale]]''). For some time, he lived clandestinely in [[Belleville, Paris]], and in [[Meudon]]. After receiving amnesty in 1959, he published an [[astrology]] magazine, before collaborating with the [[Fédération d'action nationale et européenne]] (FANE), a [[neo-Nazi]] group created in 1966 by [[Mark Fredriksen]]. Petit was sentenced several times for "[[hate speech|incitation to racial hatred]]."

==Books==
* ''La dictature des loges'' (edited by [[Baudinière]]; Paris: Éditions Baudinière, 1934)
* ''La Maçonnerie à l'oeuvre. Alexandre de Yougoslavie, victime d'une conjuration maçonnique'' (Paris: Nouvelles éditions nationales, 1935)
** Translated into [[German language|German]] as ''Der Mord an dem König Alexander von Serbien ein Freimaurerwerk'' ([[Erfurt]]: U. Bodung-Verlag, 1936)
* ''Le drame maçonnique'' (co-authored by [[Jean Drault]]; Paris: Nouvelles éditions latines, 1936)
* ''L'invasion juive'' (Paris: Centre de documentation et de propagande, 1936)
* ''Le règne des juifs'' (Paris: Centre de Documentation et de Propagande, 1937)
* ''Les juifs au pouvoir'' (published in 1936—and republished in 1938— by the ''Centre de Documentation et de Propagande''. Translated into [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Polish language|Polish]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]])
* ''Rothschild: Roi d'Israël et les Américains'' (Nouvelles études françaises, 1941)
* ''L'Emancipation des Juifs en France'' (Éditions nouvelles, 1945)


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Latest revision as of 07:42, 26 June 2024

Henri-Robert Petit
Born1899 (1899)
Died1985 (aged 85–86)
NationalityFrench
Other namesHenri Petit
Henry-Robert Petit
H.R. Petit
CitizenshipFrance
Occupation(s)Journalist and far-right activist
Known forAuthoring of books expounding antisemitic and anti-Masonic conspiricy theories; and collaborationism under the Vichy regime

Henri Petit (alias: Henri-Robert or Henry-Robert) (1899–1985) was a French journalist, collaborationist under the Vichy regime, and far-right activist.

Henri Petit wrote several anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic books, and worked with far-right journalist Henry Coston, creator of an "Anti-Jewish Youth" organisation. Petit presented himself as an "anti-Jew" candidate for the 1936 legislative elections, which were won by the left-wing Popular Front. Petit then broke with Coston, who accused him of having stolen him money.[1][clarification needed] In 1937, Petit became the secretary general of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix's Comité antijuif de France (Anti-Jewish Committee of France). In May 1942, Darquier de Pellepoix replaced Xavier Vallat as Vichy France's Commissioner for Jewish Affairs.[further explanation needed]

Petit carried on a literary correspondence with the influential novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline.[2] Petit's work influenced Céline, who shifted more and more to the far right during his career.[3][4][5]

In 1939, Petit traveled to Nazi Germany to work in the "World Center of Anti-Semitic Propaganda". He returned to France after the proclamation by Marshal Philippe Pétain of the Vichy regime in 1940, and became the chief editor of the collaborationist newspaper Le Pilori before being replaced for having criticized the Pierre Laval too harshly. Petit worked directly with the Nazi propaganda services and was, because of that, not really appreciated in collaborationist circles, being seen as becoming more German than French.[1] In August 1944, he left for Germany where his two sons worked as volunteers in the German Army.

On 18 November 1947, during the Épuration légale ("legal purge"), Petit was condemned in absentia to 20 years of prison and to "national degradation" (dégradation nationale). For some time, he lived clandestinely in Belleville, Paris, and in Meudon. After receiving amnesty in 1959, he published an astrology magazine, before collaborating with the Fédération d'action nationale et européenne (FANE), a neo-Nazi group created in 1966 by Mark Fredriksen. Petit was sentenced several times for "incitation to racial hatred."

Books

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  • La dictature des loges (edited by Baudinière; Paris: Éditions Baudinière, 1934)
  • La Maçonnerie à l'oeuvre. Alexandre de Yougoslavie, victime d'une conjuration maçonnique (Paris: Nouvelles éditions nationales, 1935)
    • Translated into German as Der Mord an dem König Alexander von Serbien ein Freimaurerwerk (Erfurt: U. Bodung-Verlag, 1936)
  • Le drame maçonnique (co-authored by Jean Drault; Paris: Nouvelles éditions latines, 1936)
  • L'invasion juive (Paris: Centre de documentation et de propagande, 1936)
  • Le règne des juifs (Paris: Centre de Documentation et de Propagande, 1937)
  • Les juifs au pouvoir (published in 1936—and republished in 1938— by the Centre de Documentation et de Propagande. Translated into Romanian, Polish and Spanish)
  • Rothschild: Roi d'Israël et les Américains (Nouvelles études françaises, 1941)
  • L'Emancipation des Juifs en France (Éditions nouvelles, 1945)

References

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  1. ^ a b Taguieff, Pierre-André, ed. (27 March 1999). L'antisémitisme de plume. 1940-1944. Études et documents (in French). Berg International Éditeurs. ISBN 2911289161.
  2. ^ Loselle, Andrea (Summer 1989). "Celine's Bagatelles pour un massacre: An Example of Failure". South Central Review. 6 (2): 56–72. doi:10.2307/3189556. JSTOR 3189556. Special edition on Fascist Aesthetics
  3. ^ Céline, Louis-Ferdinand (1938). L'école des cadavres (in French). Éd. Denoël. p. 23. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  4. ^ Scullion, Rosemarie; Solomon, Philip H.; Spear, Thomas C., eds. (1995). Céline and the Politics of Difference. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. p. 39. ISBN 0874516978. Retrieved 7 March 2016. [From Céline's L'École des cadavres]: All Aryans should read Drummont. More current: De Vries, De Poncins, Sombart, Stanley [sic] Chamberlain; closer to home: Montandon, Darquier de Pellepoix, Boissel, H.-R. Petit, Dasté, H. Coston, des Essards, Alex, Santo, etc...
  5. ^ Céline, Louis-Ferdinand (1937). Bagatelles pour un massacre. Paris: Ed. Denoël & Steele. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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