The Cagoulards

8 hrs. 1 min.

Language Russian

Author Efim Kurganov

Narrator Sergey Dadyko

Description

In January 1935, French engineer Eugène Deloncle, together with a group of like-minded people, founded the Secret Committee for Revolutionary Action (OSAR). The organization was created in opposition to the right-wing monarchist party “Action Française,” which existed in France, because Deloncle believed it failed to achieve the task of fighting against left-wing democrats and communists. Later, influential politicians, military officers, and businessmen joined OSAR—among them Eugène Schueller, founder of L’Oréal. It was in his office that the first meetings of the Cagoulards were held. Their French radicals’ nickname came from journalist Maurice Pujo, who noticed the ritual of OSAR members wearing hoods with eye slits during their sessions. The Cagoulards aimed at a violent seizure of power, but the 1937 coup failed, and they had to go underground… In a new, exciting novel, well-known historian and publicist E. Kurganov offers his version of the events of the 1930s in France.