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La droite et l'extrême droite française et la Grande Bretagne,

1870-1940: préjugés antiméridionaux, préjugés anticeltiques

This chapter argues that historical actors are situated within, use, and modify several collective frameworks, of which the nation is not always most important. In the context of 1900s France, cleavages between northerners, southerners and Celts mattered far more than historians have allowed, and they were integral to antiparliamentarianism and to Catholic opposition to secularism. Furthermore, French social scientists and politicians believed that northern France was racially closer to England than to the Midi. Their theories were developed in cooperation with British counterparts (EH Freeman, Patrick Geddes) whose prejudices against Celts were entangled with French regional antipathies.