Pierre Dominique Costantini (16 February 1889 – 30 June 1986) was a French soldier, journalist, writer and Bonapartist militant.

Life

Costantini fought as an officer in the First World War and as a reserve officer in the armée de l'air during 1939–1940. He founded the Mouvement social européen. In 1940, he founded the collaborationist Ligue française d’épuration, d’entraide sociale et de collaboration européenne and with Jean Boissel, Marcel Déat, Pierre Clémenti (politician) and Eugène Deloncle co-founded the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme (LVF). He edited the Ligue's organ, the journal L'Appel. In 1943, he founded the Union des journalistes anti-maçons. He fled to Sigmaringen in 1944 and was condemned to prison in 1952. He later pursued a journalistic career and published several essays.

Pierre Costantini

Works

La Grande pensée de Bonaparte, Paris, Éditions Baudinière, 1940. La Haute signification de la Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme, Paris, L.V.F., circa [1942]. Ode au masque de Napoléon, Paris, Éditions Baudinière, 1943.

Pierre Costantini

Bibliography

Pascal Ory, Les collaborateurs, éditions du seuil, Paris, 1976.

Pierre Costantini

1889 births

1986 deaths

French military personnel of World War I

French military personnel of World War II

French collaborators with Nazi Germany

French anti-communists

French male essayists

20th-century French essayists

20th-century French journalists

20th-century French male writers