National Front (French Resistance)
WORLD WAR II FRENCH RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
Front National (Resistance movement); National Front (Resistance movement); Front National (Resistance); Front National (French Resistance); National Front (Resistance)
The National Front ( or Front national de l'indépendance de la France) was a World War II French Resistance movement created to unite all of the Resistance Organizations together to fight the Nazi occupation forces and Vichy France under Marshall Pétain. Founded in 1941 in Paris by Jacques Duclos, André Pican and Pierre Villon, along with their wives all members of the French Communist Party (PCF) they felt that to be a vital force against the Nazis, the collaborationists and the informers that all of the Resistance movements, no matter their party or religion (Jewish or Catholic) had to band together.