According to the historian René Rémond, the UDF descended from the Orleanist tradition of the right, whereas the RPR was a reincarnation of the Bonapartist tradition, which promotes national independence by virtue of a strong state.
René Descartes | René Char | René Magritte | François-René de Chateaubriand | René Goscinny | Leon René | René Jacobs | Rene Daalder | Rene Russo | René Lévesque | Rene Requiestas | René Kollo | René Clausen | René Clair | Rene Portland | René Clemencic | Rene Auberjonois | René Higuita | Rene Goulet | René Girard | François-René de La Tour du Pin, Chambly de La Charce | Sherie Rene Scott | René Sergent | René Rémond | René Lussier | René Laennec | René II, Duke of Lorraine | Rene d'Harnoncourt | René de La Tour du Pin | Otis René |
A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his masters dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères.