The PNF, also known under the name “Les Nationalistes”, was created in 1983 by former French members of the Waffen-SS (Charlemagne), the military branch of the Nazi Party’s SS organisation. Some of them, such as Pierre Bousquet, had founded the Front National (FN) together with Jean-Marie Le Pen, but split to create their own party. Mostly inactive between the mid-1990’s and 2015, it was revived then by Yvan Benedetti after the dissolution by the French government of the organisation Oeuvre Française, following the death of the anti-fascist activist Clément Méric in 2013.

Yvan Benedetti is the spokesperson of the party since 2015.

https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14560280v
https://www.france-politique.fr/wiki/Parti_Nationaliste_Fran%c3%a7ais_(PNF)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/33e_division_SS_Charlemagne