Author: Fédération Nationale Catholique
Title: La pieuvre maconnique..,.
Description: Paris, Imp. Durassié, [1930?]. 28x21cm, 1 page.. Folded in half. A tear to crease. Good. ¶ This is a single-page two-side illustrated anti-Masonic handbill issued by Fédération Nationale Catholique. Second side concludes "La franc- maconnerie s'interpose donc entre la Souveraineté Populaire, le Suffrage Universel, ses Mandataires et le Gouvernement de la République! Cést une vraie dictature! Une dictature secrète qui nous étouffe! Secouons-la!! [" The Fédération Nationale Catholique was a French movement that was active in the 1920s and 1930s, with the purpose of defending the Catholic Church against secular trends in the governments of the time. The Federation was founded in 1924 in response to the election of a left-wing government with a secularist policy. After rapidly gaining members and staging large demonstrations, it soon achieved its goal of maintaining the status quo separation between church and state. The movement gradually lost momentum in the years that followed, although it remained in existence during the Vichy regime. The anti-religious Cartel des Gauches (Left-wing coalition) won the 1924 French national elections and formed a government led by É douard Herriot. Under pressure to launch an anti-clerical program, Herriot closed the Vatican embassy and passed legislation enforcing secular education in Alsace-Lorraine.[1] In response General Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau organized the Fédération Nationale Catholique to defend the church against the laicists...." - wikipedia].

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