Affaire Des Fiches

L'Affaire des Fiches de délation (“affair of the cards of denunciation”) was a political scandal in France in 1904-1905 in which it was discovered that the militantly anticlerical War Minister under Emile Combes, General Louis André, was determining promotions based on religious behavior. Using members of the Freemasons to watch officers, André assembled a huge card index on public officials, detailing which were Catholic and who attended Mass, with a view to preventing their promotions. It is also called in French "L'Affaire des casseroles"^[1]; casserole being slang for spy.

Both Combes and André were Freemasons^[2][3][4], and much of the information had been collected by the Masonic Grand Orient de France.^[5]

Further reading

• Larkin, Maurice. Religion, Politics and Preferment in France Since 1890: La Belle Epoque and its Legacy, (Cambridge University Press, 2002). pages 45-48 ISBN 0-521-41916-6
• Larkin, Maurice. Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair, (1974) pp. 138-41
• Porch, Douglas. The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871-1914 (2003) excerpt and text search pp 92-104, the most thorough account in English
• Smith, Leonard B. et al. France and the Great War, 1914-1918, (2003, Cambridge University Press)

Further reading

Porch, Douglas The March to the Marne: The French Army, 1871-1914, Ch. 6 "The affaire des fiches" pp. 92-104, 1981 Cambridge University Press

See also

• Anticlericalism and Freemasonry

References

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