The was a political party in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 founded in 1936 by Gaston Bergery and Georges Izard

Georges Izard

Georges Izard was a French politician, lawyer, journalist and essayist.-Life:He was named chief of staff to Charles Daniélou, then the minister of the merchant marine, whose daughter he married in 1929...

. The PF participated in the Popular Front

Popular Front (France)

The Popular Front was an alliance of left-wing movements, including the French Communist Party , the French Section of the Workers' International and the Radical and Socialist Party, during the interwar period...

. Gaston Bergery, a former member of the left wing of the Radical-Socialist Party, where he was known as a "Radical-Bolshevik

Bolshevik

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

" for his left-wing leanings and staunch opposition to fascism

Fascism

Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...

. Ironically, Bergery evolved to become a member of the French far-right.

The PF remained a very small and very weak party throughout its short existence. Its two deputies in the 1936-1940 legislature

French legislative election, 1936

French legislative elections to elect the 16th legislature of the French Third Republic were held on 26 April and 3 May 1936. This was the last legislature of the Third Republic and the last election before the Second World War. The number of candidates set a record, with 4,807 people vying for 618...

 sat in the Independent Left

Independent Left

The Independent Left was a French parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies of France during the French Third Republic between 1932 and 1940...

group.