Rene of the Tower of the Pine

See also: the Tower of the Pine

Rene of the Tower of the Pine Chambly (lieutenant colonel, marquis of Charce), was born on April 1st, 1834 with Arrancy (Aisne), not far from Laon in Picardy.

It is resulting from an old family from the Dauphine, catholic and royalist, it enters to Saint-Cyr military school in 1852. Young officer, it is useful under the Second Empire in the Crimea, Italy and Algérie before taking part in the war against the Prussia in 1870. Captive fact this same year, during the fall of Metz, it sympathizes in captivity with Albert de Mun. In September 1871, of the Commune, whereas he is still captain aide-de-camp of the military governor of Paris, he engages, at the request of Maurice Maignen (of the Brothers of Vincent Saint of Paul) in the “Work of the catholic circles of workmen” with his friend of Mun. Its action is then inspired by work of Frederic Play. At this point in time it is touched by the situation of the workmen. Its political writings are marked by this situation. More still than Lamennais, it is with the source of the current of social Catholicism in France.

In 1877 it is named military attach3e in Austria Hungary and meets the “count de Chambord”, claiming legitimist with the throne of France, in its exile of Frohsdorf. In Vienna it is also marked by the influence of the Austrian social catholics, most representative of them being the baron Karl von Vogelsang (1818-1890) who animates the review Vaterland . In 1881, he resigns of the Army and withdraws himself on his grounds of Arrancy, of which he will be mayor. To died of the “count de Chambord”, in 1883, the Tower of the Pine defers its royalist fidelity on the elder one of Orleans, Philippe of Orleans, “count de Paris” whom it meets with Have. At the beginning 1885, from passage to Rome, it is received by the Pope Leon XIII. In 1891, contrary to Albert de Mun, he refuses the Rallying of the French catholics to the Republic. The future marshal Lyautey, who publishes in the same moment his Social role of the officer, largely inspired of the experiment of the “catholic circles” will remain faithful to his royalist ideas pareillement.

In 1892 the marquis marries his cousin, Marie of the Tower of the Pine Montauban. The same year, it meets for the first time the young person Charles Maurras, still republican, starts of a correspondence which was to continue until the death of the colonel. Once the founded French Action in 1899, the Tower of the Pine brings its contest. It will thus deliver three studies to the gray Review of AF between 1904 and 1906, on the nobility, the professional representation and the territorial organization of France. In 1907 it publishes its Master delivers, imposing collection of articles written as from 1882: Towards a Christian social order . The marquis Rene of the Tower of the Pine dies in Lausanne the December 4th 1924 at 90 years completed.

Firmin Bacconnier then the French Action will constitute the principal posterity of the thought of the Tower of the Pine. As Charles Maurras will say: “It is not the Tower of the Pine which is with the French Action, it is the French Action which is with the Tower of the Pine. ” The thought of the Tower of the Pine will also mark the Général de Gaulle. In 1970, Edmond Michelet, Minister for the general, pointed out on this subject “if he is a character whom the de Gaulle general knows better than Marx, it east can be very been unaware of the Tower of the Pine today”.

Random links: