Paul Francis Curie

The Watchfulness Committee of Antifascist Intellectuals (French: Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, CVIA) was a French socialist and antifascist organization created in March 1934, in the wake of the February 6, 1934 riots organized by far right leagues, which had led to the fall of the second Cartel des gauches (Left-Wing Coalition) government. Founded by Pierre Gérôme, philosopher Alain, physicist Paul Langevin and ethnologist Paul Rivet, it edited a newsletter, Vigilance, an…