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

Zusammenfassung This book investigates the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the Third French Republic. It is based on a wide variety of archival sources - ministerial! Masonic! and ecclesiastical archives! including Vatican papers hitherto unused. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. As It Was: Catholic and the Republic 1890-1914: 1. Ralliés et dérailleurs: Catholics and subversion; 2. Le sabre et le goupillon: Catholics and the army; 3. Raison d'état, raison d'église: the Roman dimension; Part II. As It Was: Catholics and State Employment: 4. Problems and principles; 5. Patterns of preferment; 6. Ronds-de-cuir, genoux de chameau: other sectors; 7. The Brotherhood at work; 8. Marianne at school; Part III. 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; Notes; Sources.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Larkin, Maurice (University of Edinburgh) Larkin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521522700
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52270-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Wiles Lectures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History