Civil Affairs Handbook, France, Section 2: Government and Administration

Discussion of France. This section covers the national government, provincial and other governmental units, local government, special units of government, special units of government, political parties and other organizations of political significance, para-military formations, pressure and subversive groups representing big business and high finance, the royalist right, other rightist pressure groups, labor unions, the Freemasons, youth movements, Compagnons de France, Ecoles de Cardes, collaborationist youth movements, scout movements, Catholic youth movements and the underground.