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Action Française


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A French political movement, founded in 1898 at the height of the Dreyfus affair. In 1926 it was condemned by Pius XI on the grounds of extreme nationalism and a cynical misappropriation of Catholic doctrine. The last issue of its newspaper L'Action Française appeared in 1944.

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Action Française
in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev) Length: 559 words
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in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French Length: 207 words
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in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3) Length: 67 words
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in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev) Length: 48 words

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