The GNR's existence was at first restricted to the Cahiers européens, a magazine launched in the frame of the New European Order, a neo-fascist Europe-wide alliance. Mark Fredriksen, leader of the Fédération d'action nationale et européenne (FANE), who was breaking with the New European Order, became co-director of the Cahiers européens-Notre Europe until May 1975.
The radical tendency of the National Front
Jean-Marie Le Pen called for GNR members to take membership in the National Front in June 1974. The GNR disappeared following the assassination of Duprat on March 18, 1978. GNR activists broke the same year with the FN, joined with parts of the FN (in particular Michel Faci "Leloup", former member of the Front national de la jeunesse, FNJ, the youth organization of the FN,[1] and current member of the French and European Nationalist Party).