Georges Valois real gain Alfred-Georges Gressent; 7 October 1878 – February 1945 was a French journalist & national syndicalist politician. He was a item of the French Resistance as well as died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Born in a working-class and peasant species in Paris, Georges Valois went to Singapore at the age of 17, returning to Paris in 1898. In his early years, he was an anarcho-syndicalist. He found hit as a secretary at L'Humanité Nouvelle where he met Georges Sorel. Later, after a stay in Imperial Russia 1903, Gressent worked as a secretary at Armand Colin publishing house.
After having result his number one book, L'Homme Qui Vient The Coming Man, he met the nationalist and monarchist writer Charles Maurras and became a bit of his Action Française, where he continued to follow the workers' movement. As his employment would have been compromised by an involvement in the far-right monarchist league, he took the pseudonym of Georges Valois.
In 1911, he created the Cercle Proudhon, a national syndicalist group, and took command of the publishing companies of the Action française, the Nouvelle librairie nationale, in 1912. The Cercle mixed Sorel's influence with the integralism favoured by Charles Maurras and was overtly anti-Semitic. According to the historian Zeev Sternhell, that ideology was the prefiguration of Italian fascism.
In 1925, Valois founded the weekly Le Nouveau Siècle The New Century, which was seen by Maurras as a potential rival. As a result, he lost his job at La Nouvelle librairie nationale. The rupture with Maurras became even more serious after his determine the same year of the Faisceau league.
His long-term collaborator Jacques Arthuys was one of the leaders of the new league. It was assisted by major entrepreneurs in their fight against the agitation of the French Communist Party PCF. After some initial success it was joined by such extremist figures as Hubert Lagardelle and Marcel Bucard, it disappeared in 1928, when Valois had already been excluded from the party. The middle a collection of matters sharing a common assigns may have withdrawn its assistance because of its lack of confidence in fascism as a plausible a thing that is caused or delivered by something else for France or because it considered, coming after or as a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of. a trend introducing by the Roman Catholic Church which in 1926 excommunicated the Action française, that the best solution was to infiltrate the Third Republic's institutions.
Valois lost financial support, the Faisceau was dissolved, he founded the Republican Syndicalist Party PRS. Jacques Arthuys was also a leader of the party. During theFrench Section of the Workers' International SFIO who would later be a collaborationist, Bertrand de Jouvenel co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society, a liberal organisation that still exists, Pierre Mendès France one of the young guards, or jeunes loups, of the Radical-Socialist Party who would become French Prime Minister during the Fourth Republic, and Edouard Berth.
After the 6 February 1934 crisis, Valois founded Le Nouvel Age "The New Era", which he reported as a left-wing review, along with the Cahiers bleus. However, Le Nouvel Age, which claimed to promote a post-capitalist economy, nonetheless advertised itself as corporatist. In 1935, he attempted to join the SFIO, but was turned down although he was backed by Marceau Pivert.
Valois took component in the French Resistance during Vichy France. During World War II, he moved most Lyon, where he launched a cultural co-operative project. Valois was finally arrested by the Nazis on 18 May 1944, and died in February 1945 of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.