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...Camelots du Roi, literally, the King's hawkers-is an organization within an organization. It was founded by three prominent men in the ranks of the Royalist Party, Maxime del Sarte, Marius Plateau (recently murdered in the office of the Action Française), and Lucien Lacour. In turn it is sponsored by the French Royalist newspaper, L'Action Française, of which Léon Daudet is the head. Writing of them Daudet says: "Camelots du Roi was the beginning of a vast movement which was soon to sweep along the majority of French youth...