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Troisième Voie (Ultranationalist movement, France)

Third Way

Flags of Troisième Voie - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025

Presentation of Troisième Voie
Flags of Troisième Voie
- Local sections flags
La Jeune Garde
Jeunesse nationaliste revolutionnaire
- Flags of JNR

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Presentation of Troisième Voie

Troisième Voie (Third Way) was a French revolutionary nationalist movement, born in 1985 from the merger of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) with dissidents from the New Forces Party (PFN), which self-dissolved in 1992. The movement was founded in 1985 by Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, until then leader of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR). Troisième Voie was supported at its creation in 1985 by the Union Defense Group, which regained its autonomy in 1988. The choice of name for the new movement is related to the numerous contacts that Jean-Gilles Malliarakis and the MNR had developed over the years with Italian national revolutionaries, including the main leaders of the Terza Posizione organization. The group claims to be both anti-communist and anti-capitalist, notably through its slogan "Neither Trusts, Nor Soviets." The movement's emblem is the trident. This frist "Troisième Voie" finally broke up in 1991 when Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, in turn, decided to join the National Front (FN). The majority of activists then followed the "radical third-way" faction, led by Christian Bouchet, and left the organization to form a new movement, which they called New Resistance. The minority that remained loyal to Jean-Gilles Malliarakis attempted to keep Troisième Voie alive, but it quickly declined before disbanding.

Serge Ayoub, very active during the 1980s with his skinhead gang, founded the first Revolutionary Nationalist Youth (JNR) in 1987. After being associated with Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, leader of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, and then of Troisième Voie, the JNR disassociated itself from them in 1989. In the 1990s, Ayoub moved away from political action.

In October 2010, Ayoub launched "Troisième Voie, pour une avant-garde solidariste" (Third Way for a Solidarist Avant-Garde), diffrerent from the previous organization. Its emblem was however the trident too. The aim for Ayoub was to go into the trade union field. Ayoub also reactivated the Revolutionary Nationalist Youth movement. In May 2011, he co-chaired the May 9 Committee. In June 2013, he announced the self-dissolution of the Troisième Voie and JNR movements, explaining that he "made this decision for the sake of honor, before being dissolved by others." The government had in fact launched a procedure to dissolve these groups two weeks earlier.

Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025

Flags of Troisième Voie

Many flags were observed for the "newer" Troisième Voie movement (2010-2013).

tricolore flags with a golden emblem : fasces with oak and laurel branches, motto on listels reading "Liberté / Patrie" and "3eme Voie" (Liberty / Homeland / 3rd Way)
white flag with a black phrygian cap bearing a white cockade adorned with the Trident of Troisième Voie. In the fly, the motto : Liberté et Patrie

See: photo from this page, photo from this page.

Olivier Touzeau, 12 March 2025

Local sections flags of Troisième Voie

Local sections flags of Troisième Voie - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025

The local sections flags were white flags with a black trident fimbriated in gray in the upper hoist, and in the fly, the name of the local section.

See: photo from this page (2013). Same picture in Le Monde (2013).
Photo from this page (2011). Video (2013).
Examples : Picardie, Paris, Herault, Haut-Rhin...

Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025

La Jeune Garde

Jeune Garde, an ultra-rightist youth movement, was founded in 1984. In 1985, it became the youth wing of the newly founded movement Troisième Voie. The two groups were self-disbanded in 1991

Jeune Garde used a black flag with a white trident (photo) and a red flag with a white seagull superimposed on a black Celtic cross (photo).
The flag with trident was similar to those which are currently used by the Neo-Solidarist Alternative (Belgium) and Nación y Revolución (Spain). The seagull which was featured on the other flag was usually drawn in a very simplified way, almost like a small child's drawing of the bird, although it was originally meant to look more realistic.

Tomislav Todorović, 12 May 2016

Jeunesse Nationaliste Révolutionnaire

The Jeunesses Nationalistes Révolutionnaires (JNR) is a French revolutionary nationalist group originally composed exclusively of skinheads in the 1980s and 1990s, then reactivated in 2010-2013. On April 22, 1990, journalists from La Cinq television and the JNR organized the filming of a violent incident. They filmed the attack on Karim Diallo in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

On June 18, 1990, two members of the JNR murdered a young Mauritian, James Dindoyal, in Le Havre, forcing him to swallow a mixture of beer and peroxidase, a cleaning agent for mechanical parts, before throwing him off a seawall. They were not identified until 1997 and were sentenced in October 2000 to twenty years in prison. On May 7, 1994, the JNR and the GUD (fr}gud.html) organized a demonstration against "American imperialism." The police dispersal of the banned demonstration resulted in the death of a 22-year-old protester, Sébastien Deyzieu. This subsequently led to annual demonstrations organized by the May 9 Committee (C9M), which brought together the JNR, the National Youth Front, the GUD, and the French Nationalist Party.

Jeunesse Nationaliste Révolutionnaire was dissolved in the mid-1990s and reactivated in 2010 to provide security for a new iteration of the French revolutionary nationalist movement, the Troisième Voien, claiming to be a movement of solidarity. On June 11, 2013, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault confirmed to the National Assembly that he had initiated a procedure that could lead to the dissolution of the JNR, the Troisième Voie group, and other "groups" of this movement by the Council of Ministers on June 26, 2013. Anticipating this decision, the JNR and Troisième Voie announced their self-dissolution. On July 30, 2014, the Council of State validated the dissolution of the JNR and Troisième Voie.

Jeunesse Nationaliste Révolutionnaire is not to be confused with the Jeunesse Nationaliste.

Olivier Touzeau , 17 May 2016

Flags of JNR

Three Standards of JNR (click to enlarge) - Images located by Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025

Three standards are in use together by the JNR, and can be observed in Troisième Voie movement demonstrations

The first standard is a French tricolore (B/W/R) with a golden Troisième Voie trident in each corner in a laurel wreath, and a central golden emblem made of fasces and an axe bearing on the blade the letters "JNR". The vertical text on each side reads "Croire Combattre Obéir", the JNR motto.
The second standard has a napoleonic pattern: white diamond reaching the borders of the flag. The triangle corners of the flags are red in the upper left and lower right, blue in he upper right and lower left, with a golden Troisième Voie trident in each corner in a laurel wreath. The text in the white diamond reads "La Convention" (the 1792-1795 constituent assembly of the French First Republic), "La Commune" (French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris in 1871), "La 3eme Voie" (the Third Way).
The third standard is a French tricolore (B/W/R) with a golden Troisième Voie trident in each corner in a laurel wreath, and a central golden emblem made of fasces surrounded by laurel and oak branches, with on three listels the motto "Croire Combattre Obéir". The vertical text on each side reads "Jeunesse Nationaliste Révolutionnaire".

All have eagle finials.
Sources: photo from this page (streetpress.com), photo from this page (franceinfo.fr), article (franceinfo.fr), photo from this page (Huffington Post).

Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025

"Croire Combattre Obéir" is the French re-arranged translation of the Italian Fascist motto "Credere Obbedire Combattere" ("Believe, Obey, Fight"): source (Wikipedia).

Tomislav Todorović, 28 May 2025

Local flag of JNR in Paris - Image located by Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025

Besides, a local flag of the Parisian chapter of the JNR has been observed:
I t is quartered of blue (upper hoist and lower fly) and red (upper fly andlower hoist) with a white cross bearing in gold the motto "Croire Combattre Obéir", and has in gold: a napoleonic eagle in the upper hoist, the arms of Paris in the lower hoist, the texte "CHAPITRE PARIS - 1987 -" in the upper fly, and "JEUNESSE NATIONALISTE REVOLUTIONNAIRE" in the lower fly.
Source : photo from this page (lefigaro.fr).

Olivier Touzeau, 27 May 2025