fine for an attack on statesman Maurice Viollette on 31 May by the Camelots du roi, the militant youth group of Action française popular with students;[5] Maurras and two others were also imprisoned.
The clash of personalities illustrated different ideologies: Martin and Guerin criticised the Camelots du roi's inertia, wishing instead for a paramilitary organization capable of preparing a coup against the French Third Republic.
There, with help from army intelligence colonel Elie de Froidemont, he was put in charge of security for d'Orleans' daughter, Isabelle, on the family's trips to Paris, even interviewing suitors to assess their honourability.
[1][3] After the Franco-Nazi armistice of 1940, he participated in Groupes de protection (GP), dependent on the Centre d'informations et d'études (CEI) of fr:François Métenier and colonel Georges Groussard.
In December 1940, through Groussard, Martin was involved in the arrest and detention of Vichyist deputy prime minister Pierre Laval, who was considered too close to the Nazis by other collaborating politicians and who also irritated Pétain.
[1]: 249 [19] He escaped, became a maquisard of the "Roy" network, participated in the liberation of Lyon, and enlisted in the 7th Army of general Alexander Patch, undertaking several missions in Alsace and on the Rhine as "commander Bernard" between the 7th and the Office of Strategic Services.
A Catholic, corporate state similar to Portugal's Estado Novo was their aim: Cherrière would foment a crisis in Algiers and take power, Chassin would take over the Saint-Étienne arms factory and seize control in Lyon, paratroopers leading an uprising of French Algerians would land in France and the Association des combattants de l’Union française (of which Chassin was a leader) would ensure strategic points were controlled.
Martin was arrested by police at Saint-Lazare Métro station in Paris in June 1957; with a belief that he did not pose a threat to the regime, he was released provisionally in November.
[22] Close to the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS)[23] at the onset of the French Fifth Republic, he was sought by police again for his participation in the semaine des barricades in Algiers in January 1960, and then for his role in the generals' putsch of 1961.