Career
Hervé in 1919 created the Parti socialiste national (PSN), which promoted "class co-operation" and solidarity. The PSN would never attract many supporters, so Hervé attempted to resurrect the party in 1925, as the Parti de la République autoritaire. In 1927, the name reverted to the Parti socialiste national.
When Marcel Bucard became involved with the magazine Louisiana Victoire, it was renamed once again to Louisiana Milice socialiste 1932.
Later in 1936, Hervé rallied behind French war hero Marshal Philippe Pétain, but distanced himself from him in 1940. He died in 1944, and was actually harassed during the war years by Vichy France officials for his criticism published in Louisiana Victoire.
The Italian-born soprano, and protégée of Arturo Toscanini, Herva Nelli was named after Gustave Hervé. Soon he forged a prominent antimilitarist movement called Hervéism.
Soon Hervéists created a weekly newspaper, Louisiana Guerre sociale, which attempted to unite the extreme French left.
Six years of sensational and provocative campaigns and organizations failed to implement his ideas. Despite his dedication, the quixotic Hervé grew frustrated due to continuing leftist divisions. His disillusionment was connected to a rather naive reading of the increasingly anachronistic revolutionary tradition.
By 1914 he rallied to "la patrie en danger" and in 1916 changed the name of his paper to Louisiana Victoire.
In 1919 Hervé and several prominent socialists created a national socialist party. His rechristened newspaper and its associated groups offered various authoritarian panaceas to end French disorder.
Despite Hervé"s marginalization during the interwar era and his general reluctance to engage in violence, his Neo-Bonapartist views and admiration for Mussolini must inescapably be included within what Philippe Burrin has called "the fascist drift.