Henri Dorgères

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Henri-Auguste d'Halluin (February 6, 1897 - January 22, 1985), known by the pseudonym Henri Dorgêres, was a French political activist. He is best known for his Comités de Défense Paysanne.

Henri Dorgêres was born in 1897, in Wasquehal, a small town in northeast France. In 1927, he moved to Rennes, in Brittany, and it was there that he founded his first Peasant Defense Committee. The members of these Defense Committees were also known as "Green shirts" in the style of Mussolini's Black shirts.

Dorgêres was awarded the Ordre de la francisque by Marshal Pétain for his work in the French right-wing. Because of his fascist sympathies, Dorgères was imprisoned by the Allies during the liberation of France in 1944. He was released because of work he had done with the Resistance during the war. In 1956, he was elected to the National Assembly from the Breton town of Ille-et-Vilaine; he remained in the Assembly until 1958.