Religion, Politics and Preferment in France Since 1890: La Belle Epoque and Its Legacy

Portada
Cambridge University Press, 22 ago 2002 - 264 páginas
This book is the first to investigate the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the French Republic in France. Using ministerial and Masonic archives, the book explores the broad divergence of practice between individual ministries and between particular governments, depending on the current climate of Church-State relations. It also examines the factors that underlay these discriminatory attitudes--notably the claims of Catholic involvement in the right-wing subversive activities of the late 1890s at the time of the Dreyfus affair, for which it draws extensively on evidence in the Jesuit and Assumptionist archives, as well as in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano and the personal papers of the monarchirst pretenders. It likewise investigates the increased difficulties that French Catholics faced after the change of pope in 1903. The administrative archives of the papal Segretaria di Stato confirm the view that if the Austrian intervention had not then prevented Cardinal Rampolla from becoming pope, Church-State might have evolved very differently in France. Later chapters explore the degree to which wariness towards committed Catholics in the public services evaporated under later regimes--despite the traumas of the Vichy years.

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Rallies and derailleurs Catholics and subversion
3
Le sabre et le goupillon Catholics and the Army
29
Raison detat raison deglise the Roman dimension
53
As it was Catholics and State employment 18901914
69
Problems and principles
71
Patterns of preferment sectors with teeth
88
Rondsdecuir genouxdechameau other sectors
107
The Brotherhood at work
119
As it became 19141994
145
La grande illusion? 19141939
147
The leopards spots 19401960
174
Croquet through the looking glass rules and identity in question 19601994
194
Religious observance in France c 1960
206
Notes
207
Sources
232
Index
240

Marianne at school
128

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