L'Ami du clergé
| Founder(s) | Victor Palmé, Pierre Maitrier |
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| Founded | 1878 |
| Language | French |
| Ceased publication | 1969 |
| Headquarters | Paris, Langres |
| Country | France |
L'Ami du clergé (French: [lami dy klɛʁ.ʒe], The Friend of the Clergy) was a weekly French language magazine of encyclopedic nature published in Langres between 1878 and 1969 (when it became Esprit & Vie)
With a print run of more than ten thousand copies, this review was intended to complete and update the training of the clergy on "all dogmatic, moral, liturgical and theological questions, on canon law, Holy Scripture, patrology, and Holy History," as stated in the frontispiece, but also on the scientific, social and ecclesiastical issues necessary to combat the anticlerical movement that had begun with the fall of the Second Empire and the proclamation of the Third Republic.
History
The magazine was created in 1878 in Paris by two laymen, Victor Palmé, a noted editor and bookseller,[1] and Pierre Maitrier, who established himself as printer-publisher in Langres, after having been at Firmin-Didot in Paris.
L'Ami du clergé was originally a supplement to the newspaper L'Univers, which placed it under a double patronage and a double vocation: that of the encyclopedism of Abbé Migne (1800–1875) who had been the founder of L'Univers, and that of Louis Veuillot (1813–1883) who had become its director, and whose editor was Victor Palmé.
Abbé Migne had already published a weekly journal in-12°, La Vérité canonique liturgique, historique, bibliographique, anecdotique, whose prospectus announced on April 6, 1861 that its intention was "to render service to the clergy by answering their needs and questions in matters of liturgy and ecclesiastical discipline", in a portable format that would complete the immense collections. It had ceased publication in 1867, a few weeks before the arson attack of February 12, 1868. It was this program that L'Ami du clergé will take up again and carry out perfectly well.
The printing house of Petit Montrouge in Paris having been destroyed, the task of continuing the publication of Veuillot's works was completed by Victor Palmé on the presses of the General Bookstore Society — which had specialized in limited deluxe editions. The Society was sold and ceased its activities in 1898. Part of it had been transferred to Langres, which led to the creation in 1878 of a first monthly supplement to the newspaper L'Univers.
The title Ami du clergé, had been taken from the essay L'Ami du clergé et des hommes religieux, ou Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique, politique et littéraire, published in 1844 in Paris by the lawyer Mathieu Henrion (1805–1852), who directed since 1840 the newspaper L'Ami de la religion et du roi, ecclesiastical, political and literary newspaper, published in Paris since 1808 by Adrien Le Clère. Ami du clergé et de la noblesse had already been published between 1790 and 1791, by a deputy. The term ami (friend) was typical of the legitimist or counter-revolutionary press organs, such as L'Ami du roi — which parodied the name of the clubs they opposed, like the Friends of the Constitution, newspapers like Marat's L'Ami du peuple, all of which came from the Society of Friends.
Abbé François Perriot (1839–1910),[2] superior of the Grand Séminaire, understood the importance of the Ami du Clergé, retired in 1892 and became the editor of the magazine which he transformed into a sort of official journal of the parish clergy of France. He was honored with the prelature in 1906 by Pope Pius X.
In 1888, Firmin Dangien[3] bought the title of the Ami du Clergé and Canon Louis Denis (1841–1892), chancellor of the bishopric of Langres, became its director and contributed to the foundation of the Croix de la Haute-Marne, of which he became editor until his death in 1892.
In 1902, Abbé Perriot was replaced by Abbé Antoine Rozier (1872–1955), a canon of Langres who became the Prothonary Apostolic.
The printing house Maitrier & Courtot of Langres was also responsible for the creation in 1889 of the Croix de la Haute-Marne which was a supplement to the newspaper La Croix intended to inform the public about all the incidents caused by secularization, such as the expulsion of teaching and nursing congregations, the quarrel over inventories, and more generally the sectarian intransigence of the Republicans.
L'Ami du Clergé was published under this outdated title until May 1968, when it was taken over by Éditions du Cerf in 1969 and given a more modern title: Esprit & Vie.
Contents
In addition to being a quasi-official newspaper of the clergy of France and a militant organ, L'Ami du clergé had as its vocation to make known and to promote social Catholicism and more generally all the literary, scientific, philosophical or historical works inspired by the Catholic religion, but without seeking to maintain polemics, contrary to Louis Veuillot.
Thus, to take one example, in the volume for the year 1907, one finds contributions or reviews of works by Jacques Bainville, René Bazin, Paul Bourget, Louis Bréhier, Henri Bremond, Ferdinand Brunetière, Caumont de la Force (1878–1961), Monsignor Dupanloup (1802–1878), Gustave Le Bon, Jules Lemaître, Charles Maurras, Frédéric Mistral, the Count of Montesquiou (1873–1915), Marcel Prévost, the Viscount of Noailles, the Canon Sertillanges (1843–1948), Pierre de Vaissière (1867–1942), the biographies of Gerson, Calvin, Bossuet, Pierre Loti, Taine (1828–1893), Lammenais, Lacordaire, Louis Veuillot, Madame Craven... and reviews of works by Goethe, Châteaubriand, Hugo, Balzac, Auguste Comte, Marc Sangnier, Théodule Ribot, Célestin Bouglé, Alfred Fouillée (1838–1912), Tocqueville and Gobineau (1816–1882).
Supplements
L'Ami du clergé, revue de toutes les questions ecclésiastiques, included:
- from 1888 onwards, a supplement entitled L'Ami du clergé paroissial (Friend of the parish clergy), which proposed models of sermons and orations for each day of the year and each occasion.
- from 1894, a second supplement entitled La jurisprudence ecclésiastique au presbytère, intended to inform on questions of civil and canonical jurisprudence concerning the clergy. In particular, it proposed an analysis of the jurisprudence on the problems posed by the new legislation on the secularization of clergy property and the banishment of congregations, at the time of the inventory quarrel.
It also includes decennial tables published in Langres in 1879–1888; 1889–1898; 1899–1908; 1909–1923; 1924–1933; 1934–1950.
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- ↑ Director of the Société générale de la librairie catholique (1873–1898).
- ↑ A specialist in Gregorian chant, he was a cantor and professor of chant. Doctor in theology, he had also occupied the chairs of history and dogmatic theology, and collaborated in the first edition of the Catéchisme du patron, with Léon Harmel. He was a republican and a liberal. From 1892 on, he had organized in Val-des-Bois training sessions for seminarians on the encyclical Rerum novarum, also open to laymen, among whom were Marc Sangnier and Georges Goyau in 1899. He had published several articles on this encyclical in L'Univers, which were collected in book form.
- ↑ Dangien Firmin-Nicolas established himself as a printer at 2 rue des Capucins (on May 31, 1871), then as a bookseller on April 10, 1872. In 1871 he worked at 8 rue de l'Homme Sauvage (today rue Barbier d'Aucourt) where he published the newspaper La Haute-Marne. In 1875 he printed La Vérité, and in 1880 L'Eteignoir. He sold the premises to Rallet-Bideaud in 1884.
