Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-276) and index.
Part I. 1887-1914 : La Belle Epoque : origins and evolution of nationalism and prefascism? Socialism and Boulangism, 1887-89 / Michel Winock -- Anti-Semitic discourse in Dreyfus-Affair France / Jeremy Jennings -- The right wing and the working classes : the case of the 'syndicats "jaunes"' (1899-1912) / Edward J. Arnold -- Elusive fascism : reflections on the French extreme right at the end of the nineteenth century / Christophe Prochasson -- Part II. 1914-40 : the interwar years. A flirt or a love affair? French intellectuals between fascism and nazism / Shlomo Sand -- The Croix de Feu and fascism : a foreign thesis obstinately maintained / Kevin Passmore -- The intellectual extreme right in the thirties / Jeannine Verdès-Leroux -- Part III. 1940-44 : in the breach. The ideology of the National Revolution / Philippe Burrin -- Vichy and fascism / Julian Jackson -- Collaborationist fascism / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia -- Part IV. 1944-1998 : smouldering ashes? Nostalgia and political impotence : neo-nazi and extreme-right movements in France, 1944-1964 / Jean-Yves Camus -- Plus ça change! The fascist pedigree of the Nouvelle Droite / Roger Griffin -- The conditions for the re-emergence of an extreme right wing in France : the National Front, 1984-98 / Pascal Perrineau