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Jeunesse PatriotesThe Jeunesses Patriotes were right-wing street brawlers of France, recruited mostly from university students, founded by right-wing deputy Pierre Taittinger in 1924. According to police, Jeunesses Patriotes had 90,000 members in France and 6,000 in Paris in 1932. Its street fighters were commanded by a retired general named Desofy and organized in mobile squads of fifty men, outfitted in blue raincoats and berets.
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