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Paul Duquaire et le catholicisme social à Lyon, 1859-1932.

Gersende Le Jariel

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Paul Duquaire is issued from a middle class familly of lyonnais jurists and a profound catholic. He studied law at the Catholic University and became a lawer. He rediscovers the cream of the catholic lyonnais amongst a vast charity network. Entered in a large social system, he was led to assume political functions amongst which the role of senator (1920-1927). He was a member of " l'Action libérale populaire " and of the " Fédération républicaine du Rhône ". At the basis of all its commitments lay one and only thought : " First and above all : religion " in contrast with Maurras' concept " politics before" . Paul Duquaire is an absolute catholic : God should be introducted in all individuals lives and communities, thus the divine law will be established into a social one. If he follows papacy particulary Léon XIII in mattes of politics, Paul Duquaire is a social catholic directly inspired by Rerum Novarum. There is in him a will for social improvement : the laws on providence he helped to elaborate at the Senate go in this way. He encourages professional organisations in solving social problems and appears as a transient person between Albert de Mun and the CFTC. Devoting a real cult to the mother country, Paul Duquaire is for a patriotism enlightening the parlementary republic and not returning back against it as the nationalists do. If he does not accept the democratic value of egality, he accepts the working rules of democraty : the universal franchise which he claims certain amendments.

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Histoire religieuse

Chronologique:

XIXe siècle, XXe siècle
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Gersende Le Jariel, “Paul Duquaire et le catholicisme social à Lyon, 1859-1932.”Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 41-4 | 1996, Online since , connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/365; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.365

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