synarchy movement of empire book ii - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic ...

The editorial board and administration of {SEPT} was entirely
dominated by six heavy duty Dominicans, and most prominently:
FATHERS, MARIE-DOMINIQUE CHENU, YVES CONGAR, JEAN
MAYDIEU and A.D. SERTILLANGES. Among the top contributors under
the age of forty, there were ALEXANDER MARC LIPIANSKY and
DANIEL-ROPS. Among the less than thirty, there were ETIENNE BORNE,
MAURICE SHUMANN, PIERRE-HENRI SIMON, and FATHER
CONGAR. There were also top {agreges}, or PHD'S, such as, ETIENNE
GILSON, HENRI GUILLEMAIN, and JACQUES MARITAIN.
The {SEPT} project was created in February 1934 at the Juvisy
Dominican Convent, a few weeks after the failed coup d'etat of ACTION
FRANCAISE and CROIX DE FEU of February 6. Just to indicate the nature
of the retooling effort of the Dominicans with respect to ACTION
FRANCAISE, the case of the young FATHER MAYDIEU was exemplary.
MAYDIEU had been a former {Camelot du Roi} and was formerly a
bodyguard of CHARLES MAURRAS. MAYDIEU was a thug. Suddenly,
after the excommunication of ACTION FRANCAISE by POPE PIUS XI, in
1926, MAYDIEU became a Dominican priest and, a few years later, came to
play a crucial role in the conversion and control of ALEXANDER MARC,
as a member of {SEPT}. It was MAYDIEU who was later chosen by
PETAIN to replace FATHER DE NAUROIS as chaplain, and who joined
EMMANUEL MOUNIER at URIAGE. HELLMAN noted that "Mounier
would go on to do much to shape a "neither Right not Left" ideology
attractive to young men who had been strongly influenced by, but wanted to
leave behind, the Action Francaise." (HELLMAN, Communitarian, p.242.)
Another Dominican leader of the Juvisy Convent was FATHER
MARIE-VINCENT BERNADOT, who had been the founder of two
reviews, {La Vie Spirituelle} (1919) and {La Vie Intellectuelle} (1928). In
the earlier years, BERNADOT had been a strong supporter of CHARLES
MAURRAS, but since the POPE PIUS XI condemned ACTION
FRANCAISE in1926, he began to push the THIRD WAY, in a more
compromising SAINT YVES D'ALVEYDRE position of "neither Right nor
Left," which would become the slogan of the revue {SEPT}, as well as of
their new publishing house, the Editions du Cerf.
BERNADOT was looking for a young ideologue who would usher in
a new "personalist" orientation, and who would be neither communist nor a
bourgeois capitalist, but who would be just Delphic enough to reprogram the
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