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Solidarité Française (French) was a group of Rightist street toughs founded in 1923 by perfume manufacturer François Coty and commanded by Major Jean Renaud, they dressed in blue shirts, black berets, and jackboots, and shouted the slogan "France for the French".
They claimed a strength of 180,000 in 1932, with 80,000 in Paris; the Parisian police thought the number in Paris closer to 15,000.