the popular front failed & was dissolved, with about every single achievement suspended through the mobilization & wartime acts. the the French left in 1940 were either in jail or in marginalized collaboration with the centre (if you can even call people like Daladier meaningfully leftwing).
collaboration after capitulation doesn't mean there had been before or that that course of action was preferred by the collaborators. a counterexample to Petain would be Darlan who clearly was just an opportunist. and Petain himself lost the pride of his career in the reconquest of Alsace.
i should think the first priority for a french rightist in those days would be to win, keep their national pride & territory, and possibly use the prestige or warpowers afterward to sideline the left. like DeGaulle
the popular front failed & was dissolved, with about every single achievement suspended through the mobilization & wartime acts. the the French left in 1940 were either in jail or in marginalized collaboration with the centre (if you can even call people like Daladier meaningfully leftwing).
collaboration after capitulation doesn't mean there had been before or that that course of action was preferred by the collaborators. a counterexample to Petain would be Darlan who clearly was just an opportunist. and Petain himself lost the pride of his career in the reconquest of Alsace.
i should think the first priority for a french rightist in those days would be to win, keep their national pride & territory, and possibly use the prestige or warpowers afterward to sideline the left. like DeGaulle