[6] Le Soleil indeed defended an anti-capitalist nationalism that denounced the role of Jews in finance, politics, and the industries, as well as the "threat" represented by the state of Israel on geopolitics.

[10] Following an increase in far-right violence at the end of the previous decade, the police considered a first time the possibility of banning the group in 1980, highlighting their own designation as a "nationalist guard", their organized physical trainings in the woods and obsessional antisemitism as potential risks.

[15] The movement launched in early 1994 a new organ named Jeune Nation, in reference to an older group Sidos had founded nearly forty-five years earlier and dissolved by decree in 1958.

[11][3][12] The party however later tightened its policy regarding relations with radical groups, Marine Le Pen denouncing an "operation of entryism" to facilitate the seizure of power by her rival Bruno Gollnisch in the FN.

[18] Gabriac and Benedetti thus decided to establish "Jeunesses Nationalistes" in 2011 as the youth movement and activist branch of L'Œuvre, in order to attract militants disappointed with the new FN leadership.

The ban occurred in a context of street violence by far-right revolutionary groups, which culminated in the death of a far-left activist in a fight against another nationalist association led by Serge Ayoub.

"[21] He further added that the association had been "spreading a xenophobic and antisemitic ideology, diffusing racist and Holocaust-denying thesis, exalting collaboration [with the Nazis] and the Vichy regime, paying regular tribute to Pétain, Brasillach or Maurras".

[26] Closer to the "semi-fascist"[1] Francoist Spain and Estado Novo than true fascist regimes, L'Œuvre Française was nonetheless an antisemitic, racialist and neo-Pétainist organization, influenced by various conspiracy theories.

[13] During its two first congresses in 1970 and 1975, L'Œuvre defined their political agenda as the establishment of a "nationalist state" founded on the idea of "blood and soil" and a Catholic doctrine purged from Jewish influence.

Display of political affiliation or atheism in public life were to be banned, while a "corporatist socialism" was to achieve a "popular and communitarian state, with the union under the same fasces of all nation activities and forces".

[5] In its monthly organ Jeune Nation, L'Œuvre dismissed democracy as the "reign of drugs", "suicide" and "meaningless words like tolerance, human rights, anti-racism, liberty, that emasculate our youth.

"[28] Designed as a cult of personality, the organization was labeled a sect or nicknamed the "Church of Sidology" by competing far right groups,[5] while its adherents highlighted the discipline and determination allowed by their organizational structure.