Integral Nationalism and Social Democracy: L'Action Francaise and Le Sillon

At the outset of the 20th century L'Action Francaise and Le Sillon, the former identified with the philosophy of Charles Maurras, the latter with Marc Sangnier, vied for the allegiance of Francophone Catholics more largely and the Catholic hierarchy more particularly. Maurras valued the Church as supporter of order and discipline and increasingly gained its support while over the same period Le Sillon ran afoul of the hierarchy, receiving condemnation in 1910. In the 1920s it was Action Francaise's turn to receive condemnation. The paper focuses on the interrelations of the two movements up to the condemnation of 1910.