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echelons <strong>of</strong> government bureaucracy, the magistrate court and the public<br />

administration, including private banking, business and newspapers. For<br />

example, during the Orleanist regime <strong>of</strong> 1830-1848, there were only 200,000<br />

local notables who were allowed to vote. There was no freedom <strong>of</strong> the press<br />

to speak <strong>of</strong>, before 1881. The freedom <strong>of</strong> trade unions came about in 1884,<br />

and the freedom <strong>of</strong> public assembly was given in 1907. The idea was<br />

control, control, and more control.<br />

Since the launching <strong>of</strong> the {Dreyfus Affaire} in 1894, the Martinists<br />

did not wish to let the Left and Right conflict die out, so they recruited a<br />

significant number <strong>of</strong> militant priests and monks who had taken an active<br />

part in the violence. The Catholic teaching congregations became a good<br />

pretext to stir up the flames <strong>of</strong> religious warfare. During the moderate<br />

government <strong>of</strong> Rene Waldeck-Rousseau (1899-1902), there was created a<br />

Left coalition to curb the power <strong>of</strong> the Catholic Church in France.<br />

Meanwhile, the ultramontane-Catholic Action Francaise was working the<br />

streets <strong>of</strong> Paris to create Right-wing violence. The apparent objective <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Synarchy was to eliminate the overwhelming role that the church played in<br />

education, since it had been completely dominating elementary and<br />

secondary school education in France, for centuries. The real aim, in fact,<br />

was to use the education <strong>of</strong> the children and the religious factor to<br />

exacerbate a population into taking a position in the continuing Left and<br />

Right confrontation and cause massive shock and awe in the general<br />

population. There had never been a more passionate issue than the education<br />

<strong>of</strong> the children to get the parents riled up, and the synarchists were out to<br />

abuse the population, and break their will.<br />

In most <strong>of</strong> the villages and towns <strong>of</strong> France, the only schools were<br />

Catholic. Even in public schools, most <strong>of</strong> the teachers were priests, monks<br />

and nuns. The fact that Catholic education was the overwhelming form <strong>of</strong><br />

French education, as opposed to lay public education, was not the problem<br />

as such. The issue was that Catholic schools were accused by the Left <strong>of</strong><br />

fashioning the youth into becoming the enemies <strong>of</strong> the so-called<br />

{Republican way <strong>of</strong> life}. In one word, Catholics were identified as a<br />

Right-Monarchist threat to the Republic.<br />

The most politicized Catholic Order to be manipulated into this sort <strong>of</strong><br />

confrontation, was the Assumptionist congregation, which ended-up being<br />

dissolved in 1901. The Association Act <strong>of</strong> 1901 was passed shortly after,<br />

banning all other "congregations," as all <strong>of</strong> the catholic religious orders are<br />

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