L'Oréal founder Eugène Schueller was widely reported to have been a fascist, but suffered few repercussions after World War II.
The whole thing reads like a political thriller, but it's exactly what happened in France in the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
The secret society called themselves the Comité Secret D'Action Révolutionnaire — or the Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action . When their crimes spilled out into the public sphere, the press dubbed them La Cagoule, or"The Hood." The group wouldn't have been able to carry out its string of violent acts without financial backing from a number of industrialists. One such businessman was almost certainly L'Oréal founder Eugène Schueller, a pharmacist-turned-entrepreneur who had made a fortune after inventing a new hair dye, according to theThe rise of La Cagoule demonstrates the volatile, simmering nature of French politics between the two world wars.
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