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Henri-Auguste d'Halluin (February 6, 1897, Wasquehal – January 22, 1985), known by the pseudonym Henry Dorgères, was a French political activist. He is best known for the Comités de Défense Paysanne which he set up in the interwar period.

Henri Dorgères was born in 1897, in Wasquehal, a small town in north of France. After passing his baccalaureate he studied law for two years. While working in public relations in Wasquehal, he married Cécile Cartigny in Lille on April 23, 1921.^[1]

In 1921, he moved to Rennes, in Brittany, to work as a journalist. In 1925 he became the editor of the regional Catholic daily Le Nouvelliste de Bretagne and then became the director of the professional journalist Progrès agricole de l'Ouest. It was as a journalist in Rennes in 1929^[2] that he founded his first Peasants' Defense Committee. These committees had action squads known as Greenshirts,^[3] which became a general name for the organisation. In 1934 he claimed that a system like Italian fascism would resolve a lot of problems in French agriculture.^[4]

In 1935 he stood unsuccesfully for the Blois constituency as a candidate for the Front paysan where he was narrowly defeated in the second round of voting by the Radical-Socialist candidate Émile Laurens.^[5]

Dorgères was awarded the Ordre de la Francisque by Marshal Philippe Pétain for his work in the French right-wing. Because of his fascist sympathies, Dorgères was imprisoned by the Allies during the liberation of France in 1944. He was released because of work he had done with the Resistance during the war. In 1956 he was elected as for the Poujadist Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans to the French National Assembly from the Breton Département of Ille-et-Vilaine; he remained in the Assembly until 1958 when he lost the newly created Ille-et-Vilaine's 4th constituency to Isidore Renouard.

In 1959 he published his memoir Au XXe siècle : 10 ans de jacquerie.^[6]