[1] The PAPF was founded on a corporatist, right-wing populist and agrarian program after Fleurent visited Eastern Europe, visited existing peasant based parties and was from the start aligned with their International Agrarian Bureau.
[5] It was initially politically eclectic,[6] but in 1934 it moved right and it joined the Front paysan with the activist and radically right wing Comités de défense paysanne and the conservative Union nationale des syndicats agricoles.
[7] One sign of radicalization was at the height of the Stavisky Affair, proposing the death penalty by hanging for politicians found guilty of forgery or embezzlement.
[8] This move to the right in 1936 divided the PAPF into two factions, while both were right wing on the French political spectrum, the more Republican and centrist faction founded the Republican, Social and Agrarian Party led by the PAPF's sole deputy in the 1932 Assembly, Louis Guillon.
[9] Post-war a small Peasant Party existed, with a large section splitting off in 1951 as the Independants Paysans and then joining the liberal National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNI), which exists to this day (though much weaker than in the past).