Louis Salleron
| Louis Salleron | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 August 1905 Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Died | 20 January 1992 (aged 86) Versailles, Yvelines, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
Louis Salleron (15 August 1905 – 20 January 1992) was a French author, journalist and Catholic theoretician. He was right-wing, with monarchist sympathies, and an advocate of agricultural corporatism. During the early years of the Vichy Regime in World War II (1939–45) he played a leading role in establishing the Peasant Corporation. He continued to publish books and articles after the war, and was an outspoken opponent of the Vatican II reforms to the Catholic church.
Louis Salleron was born on 15 August 1905. He was the brother of the journalist and writer Paul Sérant (Paul Salleron). He was close to the Henri, Count of Paris. From the mid 1930s he was a theoretician of agricultural corporatism, looking for a "third way" between Liberalism and Socialism. He was active in the National Union of Agricultural Unions (UNSA), and from 1935 worked with the L'Institut d'études corporatives et sociales (IECS). His thesis in law, sustained in 1937, was entitled L'évolution de l'agriculture française, du régime foncier au régime corporatif. He was a professor of political economics at the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1937 to 1957. At the Peasant Congress at Caen on 5–7 May 1937 Jacques Le Roy Ladurie, influenced by Rémy Goussault and Louis Salleron, invited the leading conservative agrarians to declare their support for corporatism. The weekly Syndicats paysans, co-edited by Salleron and Le Roy Ladurie, first appeared on 1 July 1937.
Under the Vichy government Salleron played a leading role in introducing the Peasant Corporation. As the semi-official theoretician of the UNSA he was the main author of the draft law of September 1940 on the Corporation Paysanne, which would create a corporative structure in agriculture. After many revision and some opposition from the Germans the Peasant Charter was promulgated on 2 December 1940. Salleron was made the Corporation's delegate-general for economic and social questions. Salleron, speaking out against the "liberalo-Marxist error", advocated "the wholesale reservation of the present structure of the peasantry, which demographically, economically, socially and morally amounts to near-perfection." The corporation struggled to become effective, handicapped by a temporary structure, internal conflicts, and actions by the Ministry of Agriculture that reduced its authority and introduced reforms without consultation. By the end of the first year Salleron gave vent to his frustration,
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