 A few of the most radical pacifists would go as far as collaborating with the German troops in the hope of a reestablishment of the Republic (replaced after the 1940 Battle of France by the reactionary "French State" led by Marshall Pétain).These pacifists would gather themselves into the "Ligue de la pensée française" (French Thought League).Despite these divisions, the "Comité de vigilance", as it was popularly known, remained an important moment of the history of antifascism and of the left-wing in France.