White Rose Order
Ordonnance pour la Préservation de la Société Blanche | |
 recreation of the arms of the organization | |
| Abbreviation | OPSB |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1916 |
| Founder | Jacques Levasseur (credited) |
| Founded at | Port-au-Grégoire, Île d'Émeraude |
| Dissolved | 1935 |
| Legal status | banned by Emeraudian law; ban established by military occupational authority |
| Purpose | affirm White dominance in Emeraudian society |
| Origins |  Île d'Émeraude |
| Methods | political violence |
Membership (1924) | around 6,000 |
Official language | Gaullican |
President | Jacques Levasseur |
Key people | TBD, TBD, TBD |
The White Rose Order (Gaullican: Ordre de la Rose Blanche), officially named the Order for the Preservation of White Society (Gaullican: Ordonnance pour la Préservation de la Société Blanche), was a white supremacist fraternal organization and paramilitary group that formed on the Théme de Îles d'Émeraude in 1916 and was active until 1935, when it was outlawed.
The organization formed in reaction to the Emeraudian Spring, which had grown to support greater racial equality for the island's Bahian population as well as other ethnic minorities, which was pushed for by many Bahian figures such as Jean-Baptiste Canmore and Lou Dubois. Jacques Levasseur, the organization's first and only President who also is credited with founding the organization, labeled the Spring as a "malicious" movement that "[threatened] to destroy White society and bring ruin to the White race of Île d'Émeraude," an attitude shared by a considerable amount of the island's White population. The organization would undertake a doctrine they officially deemed as "résistance actif," which included political violence against Bahians and other non-whites. Much of the time, the victims of much of the attacks from the White Rose Order had little to no involvement with the Emeraudian Spring.
The organization lasted almost two full decades, as the colonial government did very little to stop their activities and in some limited cases even supported them. However, it would be dissolved in 1935 after the Grand Alliance occupied the island and the rest of the Gaullican East Arucian. Many of the White Rose Order's members had been arrested after the occupation had began, and once the Arucian Federation had formed they were blacklisted from political office and civil service. After Île d'Émeraude declared independence, the organization remained outlawed. Many of its former members would go on to found the Traditional People's Party, though it was a very minor party that never gained government representation and dissolved in 1964.
History
Initial formation
In the years prior to the Great Collapse, the White population of Île d'Émeraude, the majority of which were Gaullican, formed what many historians have called a dominant minority. This had been the case throughout the colonial era, as institutions such as Séparer helped to ensure the privelege and power of the loyal White population at the expense of other ethnicities, especially the Bahians that formed the vast majority of population. Relations between the White Gaullicans and the other ethnicities therefore were extremely tense during this time period; as Lou Dubois later recalled about life in the period, "it was a wonder a full-blown race war never broke out one way or another."
After the Great Collapse, the Emeraudian Spring began to develop. The movement originally sought to guarantee the protection of worker's rights, though eventually grew to support racial equality for non-whites, especially Bahians. This was met with mixed reaction from the White population; while some were supportive of or neutral towards the Emeraudian Spring, others reacted very harshly. Among these people were Jacques Levassuer, who was an intellectual and a businessman who held deep-seated white supremacist views.