Research Catalog

Title

Religion, politics, and preferment in France since 1890 : la Belle Epoque and its legacy / Maurice Larkin.

Author

Larkin, Maurice.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xiv, 249 pages : map; 24 cm.

Summary

This book investigates the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the Third French Republic. Using ministerial and Masonic archives, the book explores the broad divergence of practice between individual ministries and between particular governments. 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. It investigates the increased difficulties that French Catholics faced after the change of pope in 1903. 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.

Series Statement

The Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University of Belfast

Uniform Title

Wiles lectures

Subject

• Église catholique > France > Histoire > 20e siècle
• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1890-1994
• Catholics > France > History > 20th century
• Civil service > France > History > 20th century
• Church and state > France > History > 20th century
• 15.70 history of Europe
• Catholics
• Church and state
• Civil service
• Politics and government
• Diskriminierung
• Katholik
• Öffentlicher Dienst
• Rooms-katholieken
• Kerk en staat
• Catholics > France > History
• Civil service > France > History
• Église et État > France > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Catholiques > France > 20e siècle
• Fonctionnaires > France > 20e siècle
• Église et État > France > 1789-1905
• Église et État > France > 1905-...
• Fonctionnaires > Sélection et nomination > France > 20e siècle
• France > Church history > 20th century
• France > Politics and government > 20th century
• France
• Frankreich
• France > Politics and government > 19th century
• France > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle

Genre/Form

• Church history.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-239) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. As it was: Catholics and the Republic, 1890-1914. 1. Rallies and derailleurs: Catholics and subversion. 2. Le sabre et le goupillon: Catholics and the Army. 3. Raison d'etat, raison d'eglise: the Roman dimension -- Pt. 2. As it was: Catholics and state employment, 1890-1914. 4. Problems and principles. 5. Patterns of preferment: sectors with teeth. 6. Ronds-de-cuir, genoux-de-chameau: other sectors. 7. The Brotherhood at work. 8. Marianne at school -- Pt. 3. As it became, 1914-1994. 9. La grande illusion? 1914-1939. 10. The leopard's spots: 1940-1960. 11. Croquet through the looking glass: rules and identity in question, 1960-1994 -- Map: Religious observance in France, c. 1960.

ISBN

• 0521419166
• 9780521419161

LCCN

94020600

OCLC

• ocm30594213
• 30594213
• SCSB-2052377

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library