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Henri Petit (alias: Henri-Robert or Henry-Robert) (1899–1985) was a French journalist, collaborationist under the Vichy regime, and far-right activist. Henri Petit wrote several anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic books, and worked with far-right journalist Henry Coston, creator of an "Anti-Jewish Youth" organisation. Petit presented himself as an "anti-Jew" candidate for the 1936 legislative elections, which were won by the left-wing Popular Front. Petit then broke with Coston, who accused him of having stolen him money.〔Pierre-André Taguieff (dir.), ''L'antisémitisme de plume - 1940-1944 - études et documents'', Berg International Éditeurs, 1999.〕 In 1937, Petit became the secretary general of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix's ''Comité antijuif de France'' (Anti-Jewish Committee of France). In May 1942, Darquier de Pellepoix replaced Xavier Vallat as Vichy France's Commissioner for Jewish Affairs. Petit carried on a literary correspondence with the influential novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline.〔Andrea Loselle, « ''Celine's "Bagatelles pour un massacre": An Example of Failure'' », ''Central Review'', Vol. 6, No. 2, « ''Fascist Aesthetics'' » (Summer, 1989), pp. 56-72〕 Petit's work influenced Céline, who shifted more and more to the far right during his career〔Céline: ''« Tous les Aryens devraient avoir lu Drummont (). Plus actuels : De Vries, De Poncins, Sombart, Stanley Chamberlain ; plus près : Montandon, Darquier de Pellepoix, Boissel, H.-R. Petit, Dasté, H. Coston, des Essards, Alex, Santo, etc... » in ''L'école des cadavres'', Éd. Denoël, 1938, p. 35.〕〔Céline, ''Bagatelles pour un massacre'', Ed. Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1937.〕 In 1939, Petit traveled to Nazi Germany to work in the "World Center of Anti-Semitic Propaganda". He returned to France after the proclamation by Marshal Philippe Pétain of the Vichy regime in 1940, and became the chief editor of the collaborationist newspaper ''Le Pilori'' before being replaced. Petit worked directly with the Nazi propaganda services and was, because of that, not really appreciated in collaborationist circles.〔Pierre-André Taguieff (dir.), ''op. cit.'', Berg International Éditeurs, 1999.〕 In August 1944, he left for Germany where his two sons worked as volunteers in the German Army. On 18 November 1947, during the ''Épuration légale'' (French "legal purge"), Petit was condemned ''in absentia'' to 20 years of prison and to "national degradation" (''dégradation nationale''). For some time, he lived clandestinely in Belleville, Paris, and in Meudon. After receiving amnesty in 1959, he published an astrology magazine, before collaborating with the Fédération d'action nationale et européenne (FANE), a neo-Nazi group created in 1966 by Mark Fredriksen. Petit was sentenced several times for "incitation to racial hatred." == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henri-Robert Petit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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