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History France

Political Ecumenism

Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in De Gaulle’s Free France, 1940-1945

by (author) Geoffrey Adams

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2006
Category
France
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    ISBN
    9780773576667
    Publish Date
    Nov 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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Adams examines the contributions of such major Français libres as René Cassin, Pierre Mendès France, and Jacques Soustelle and explores de Gaulle's troubled relations with Churchill and Roosevelt. The opportunity for Gaullists to offer full membership to the fourth religious family, Algeria's Muslim majority, following the liberation of French North Africa is also considered. In an epilogue, Adams reflects on the impact of Free France's political ecumenism in the postwar era.

About the author

Geoffrey Adams is a Toronto native who did his graduate work at the University of Chicago under Louis Gottschalk. He has taught at Waterloo Lutheran College (now Wilfrid Laurier University), Elmira College in New York State and, since 1962, at Concordia University in Montreal. He is currently researching the civic role of French Protestants since the Dreyfus Affair.

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