Nouvelle Action Royaliste
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The Nouvelle Action Royaliste (NAR, New Royalist Action), is a monarchist (Orléanist) political movement marked by a will to found a constitutional monarchy in France.
[edit] History
The movement has its roots in Action Française, the major French monarchist movement before World War II, which was re-formed by Maurice Pujo in 1947 around the movement Restauration Nationale. In 1971 a breakaway movement, the Nouvelle Action Française was established by Bertrand Renouvin. Soon, the name of this movement was changed to Nouvelle Action Royaliste; Renouvin is the group's president. The NAR publish in particular a historical review entitled Le Lys rouge and a political semi-monthly Royaliste.
[edit] Character
The members of the NAR are sometimes described as "royalists of the left", due to close relations to certain ideas defended by the parties of the left. It is worth mentioning, that its leader, Bertrand Renouvin appealed his supporters to vote for socialist François Mitterrand in both the 1981 and 1988 presidential elections.
The ideas of NAR are characterized by souverainism, anti-liberalism and anti-Americanism, and also adherence to the original form of Gaullism. The NAR appealed to vote against the European Constitution in the referendum of May 29, 2005.
