ABSTRACT
In a recent essay on the French extreme right under the Fifth Republic, Nicolas Lebourg writes:
Radical extreme-right groups are forced to act according to a complex pas de deux, because they set for themselves a twofold mission: 1) to fight against subversion, which at times leads them to support a stronger state; 2) to engage in subversive activities aimed at toppling the state and constructing a new order.
(Lebourg 2009: 310)