Louis André
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For the French born Jesuit missionary to Canada, see Louis André (priest).
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Louis André was France's Minister of War from 1900 until 1904. Loyal to the laicite Third Republic, he was anti-Catholic, militantly anticlerical and was implicated in the Affaire Des Fiches, in which he received reports from Masonic groups on which army officers were practicing Catholics for the purpose of denying their promotions. [1]
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- ^ Larkin, Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair, pp. 138-41: `Freemasonry in France’, Austral Light 6, 1905, pp. 164-72, 241-50.
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