The École des Cadres, at Saint-Martin-d'Uriage in the Isère, was a controversial attempt in 1940-1 to establish a leadership training-school under the arm's-length sponsorship of the Vichy government. Trading on ideological resemblances with Pétain's National Revolution, its director Pierre Dunoyer de Segonzac promoted a robust centre-left Catholic Personalism with the support of Mounier, Lacroix, and others. Suspected of subversive intent, it was closed after a year. Many students, including Domenach and Beuve-Méry, joined the Resistance and later played influential roles in post-war life.
[Michael Kelly]
