However, the AF members were split between supporting the counter-revolutionary regime and their nationalism: after 1942, and in particular in 1943, some members, such as Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, Pierre Guillain de Bénouville or Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves joined the Resistance or escaped to join the Free French Forces.
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In foreign policy, Maurras and Bainville supported Pierre Laval's double alliance with Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy and with the United Kingdom in the Stresa Front (1935) on one side, and with the Soviet Union on the other side, against the common enemy Nazi Germany.
He launched his own hard-line Catholic Acción Patriótica movement after the model of Action Française and before long he had changed the name of this group to the Peruvian Fascist Brotherhood.
He was an ardent defender of the proposition that this traditional account was compatible with liberal democracy in the West, arguing that French Catholics had erred in holding that the Catholic faith supported their adherence to monarchy, à la Action Française.
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Dominique de Roux was born in a Languedoc noble family which was close to the monarchist circles (his grandfather, Marie de Roux, was the lawyer of Charles Maurras and the Action Française).
At Cluj, he founded Acţiunea Românească ("Romanian Action"), a nationalist group inspired by Charles Maurras' Action Française.
Mosse, George Review of Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian Fascism, National Socialism pp.
From then on, he and other members of Action Française (like Jacques Bainville, Jean Rivain, and Georges Valois) interested in Sorel's thought discussed the similarity between the movements in Action Françaises conferences and in essays published in the movement’s newspaper, hoping to form a collaboration with revolutionary syndicalists.
In 1971 a breakaway movement, the Nouvelle Action Française was established by Bertrand Renouvin.