Paul Vigouroux (1919–1980), also known as Mathieu Laurier, was a French political activist and anti-communist. He was a member of the Jeunesses Patriotes, La Cagoule, and was secretary general of the Parti français national-collectiviste (PFNC), a political party that was one of the forerunners of the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism.

After the French Occupation by Germany in 1941, he volunteered to fight against the USSR in the Eastern Front with the Legion of French Volunteers. In 1942 he joined Franc-Garde, the armed wing of the paramilitary force Milice. He also edited Au Pilori, an anti-Semitic newspaper.

Paul Vigouroux

After the Liberation of France he fled to Venezuela, where he wrote his memoirs under the pseudonym Mathieu Laurier.

Paul Vigouroux

References

Il reste le drapeau noir et les copains, publisher Regain - Monte-Carlo 1953 (republished by L'Homme libre, 2002)

Paul Vigouroux

1919 births

1980 deaths

20th-century French non-fiction writers

French anti-communists

French military personnel of World War II

French collaborators with Nazi Germany

French male writers

20th-century French male writers