French Social Party
| President | François de La Rocque |
|---|---|
| Founded | January 10, 1936 |
| Dissolved | July 10, 1940 |
| Preceded by | Croix-de-Feu |
| Headquarters | Rue de Milan, Paris |
| Newspaper |
Le Petit Journal Le Flambeau |
| Membership (1940) | 350,000 |
| Ideology |
French nationalism Christian democracy Corporatism Anti-communism Anti-fascism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Black |
The French Social Party (French: Parti Social Français, PSF) was a French nationalist political party founded in 1936 by François de La Rocque, following the dissolution of his Croix-de-Feu league by the Popular Front government. France's first right-wing mass party, prefiguring the rise of Gaullism after the Second World War, it experienced considerable initial success but disappeared in the wake of the fall of France in 1940.
La Rocque envisioned the PSF as the more explicitly political successor of the Croix-de-Feu, the World War I veterans' organization founded in 1927, which had by the early 1930s emerged as the largest and one of the most influential of interwar France's numerous far-right leagues. Though the Croix-de-Feu had adopted as its slogan "Social d'abord" ("Social First") as a counter to the "Politique d'abord" ("Politics First") of Action Française, it espoused the political goals elaborated by La Rocque in his tract Service Public — including social-Catholic corporatism, the institution of a minimum wage and paid vacations (congés payés), women's suffrage, and the reform of parliamentary procedure. The programme of the Social Party would further develop these same themes, advocating "the association of capital and labour", a traditional platitude of French conservatism, and the reform of France's political institutions along presidential lines, in order to bolster the stability and authority of the state.
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