1. Jacques Arthuys was a French industrialist, a right-wing intellectual and an early leader of the French Fascist movement.
21 Facts About Jacques Arthuys
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Jacques Arthuys was initially a pan-European but became opposed to the Nazi movement.
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Jacques Arthuys was arrested, deported to a concentration camp and killed by the Germans.
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Jacques Arthuys was born on 15 February 1894 in Belfort, son of an officer.
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Jacques Arthuys attended Catholic secondary schools, then studied the law, graduating in 1913 with a degree from the University of Nancy.
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Jacques Arthuys was commissioned in 1915 and made a lieutenant in 1916.
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Jacques Arthuys helped the right-wing journalist Georges Valois direct the activities of the royalist Action Francaise movement that concerned the economy.
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Jacques Arthuys argued that monetary inflation might be the first cause of inflation, but the negative balance of payments was a factor.
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Jacques Arthuys was not a royalist, but doubted that the republican government could solve the problems France was facing.
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Jacques Arthuys' published Les combattants in 1925, a book in which he described how the combatants in the war had been transformed by their experience from simple patriots into warriors.
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Jacques Arthuys argued that since the war the leftists had exposed the country to many dangers.
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Jacques Arthuys contrasted the heroism and endurance of the veterans to the "mediocre and the cowards who make up democratic governments".
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Valois and Jacques Arthuys criticized the royalist Action Francaise for its passive attitude.
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Jacques Arthuys met Le Corbusier in March 1927 and soon after proposed that he should be minister of urbanism and housing, but Le Corbusier refused to get involved in politics.
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Jacques Arthuys's unit retreated from the Sedan to Orange without loss, and Arthuys wanted to continue fighting in the Army of the Alps.
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Jacques Arthuys visited Vichy and spoke with Jean Bichelonne, Rene Belin and Henry du Moulin de Labarthete.
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Jacques Arthuys then returned to Paris where he contacted some officers of the Army's General Staff.
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Jacques Arthuys met Colonel Alfred Touny in Saumur during a veterans' reunion.
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Jacques Arthuys headed the OCM, which had a structure based on the military.
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Jacques Arthuys was deported to Hinzert concentration camp, where he died on 9 September 1943.
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On 13 July 1945 Jacques Arthuys was given the retroactive rank of Colonel, effective 1 December 1941.