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Political Ecumenism : Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in de Gaulle's Free France, 1940-1945
ISBN: 9780773576667
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: History;

Geoffrey Adams argues that the creation of La France libre and its assumption of power constitute a major turning point in modern French history. Charles de Gaulle was both the representative of a predominantly Catholic France and leader of the republican cause. By attracting key personalities from the nation's "three religious families" - Catholics, Jews, and Protestants - to the Free French banner he created a precedent-setting coalition based on political ecumenism. Following the liberation of Paris, his provisional government was recognized by France's ecclesiastical and political establishments - reuniting the Two Frances (revolutionary and counter-revolutionary), which had been in conflict since the l790s.

Geoffrey Adams is the author of The Call of Conscience: French Protestant Responses to the Algerian War and The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787 and professor emeritus, history, Concordia University.Geoffrey Adams is the author of The Call of Conscience: French Protestant Responses to the Algerian War and The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787 and professor emeritus, history, Concordia University.