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The SFIO was created on 24 April 1905 during the Globe Congress in Paris as a merger between the Parti socialiste français and the Parti socialiste de France, in order to create
the French section of the Second International, designated as the "party of the workers' movement".
The SFIO was replaced on 4 May 1969 by the Parti socialiste.
Esteban Rivera, 19 July 2016
![[Flag]](../images/f/fr}sfiob.jpg)
Flag of the section fom Bessines, 1936 - © Ville de Limoges/Musée de la Résistance de Limoges
Image located byTomislav Todorović, 31 March 2025
Since 1934, the SFIO has used the three arrows logo, originally
introduced by Sergei Tschachotin (Serge Tchakhotine) in 1932 for the
Iron Front of Germany.
See:
SFIO at Wikipedia (in French) - Logo; and Sergei Tschachotin at Wikipedia (in French).
After WW2, the arrows
were frequently combined with the party name initials or the head of
Marianne, but the logo was never standardized, although the arrows
were almost always pointing at the observer's bottom left side,
typically under the angle of 45 degrees [See:
SFIO at Wikipedia (in French)]. The arrows were also
sometimes appearing on the flags, as was the case with the 1936 flag
of the SFIO section from Saint-Jean-du-Doigt, Finistère department,
which bore three conjoined arrows surrounded with the inscriptions
[See: En Envor website and especially this photo].
Another flag from 1936, which is now kept in the Museum of the Resistance, Limoges, was used by the party section from Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne department [See: Museum of the Resistance, Limoges online gallery - Photos of the SFIO flag]; there, three separate arrows were pointing to the left, accompanied with the inscriptions.
Tomislav Todorović, 31 March 2025
The flag of the Saint-Maximin local section of the SFIO (photo) was red with gilded writing.
Esteban Rivera, 19 July 2016