 The Committee was founded in March 1934 under the initiative of Pierre Gérôme (pseudonym of François Walter, who worked doing audits at the "Cour des Comptes").Pierre Gérôme had first contacted the CGT trade union, in particular André Delmas and Georges Lapierre, who directed the "Syndicat national des instituteurs" (SNI), a teachers' trade union affiliated to the CGT.Three important personalities took part in the Antifascist Committee's foundation