Louis Dimier (11 February 1865 – 21 November 1943) was a French

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and royalist. Dimier was among the many early members of the Action Française who were practising Catholics (along with

Bernard de Vésins Count Bernard de Vésins (13 March 1869 – 6 July 1951) was a French soldier, essayist, practicing Catholic and right-wing Action Française militant. He was hostile to Freemasons, Jews and socialists, whom he considered to be working together i ...

and

Léon de Montesquiou Léon de Montesquiou (14 July 1873 – 25 September 1915) was an artistocratic French essayist, militant royalist and nationalist. He played a leading role in the right-wing Action Française movement before World War I (1914–18). He enrolled in ...

). They helped Charles Maurras (1868–1952) develop the royalist league's pro-Catholic policies. In 1915, during the First World War, Dimier published ''Les troncons du serpent: idée d'une dislocation de l'empire allemnd at d'une reconstitution des Allemagnes'' in which he advocated partitioning Germany into around 100 free cities and allocating German lands to Poland and

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, with the Rhineland and the

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being a workers' state entrusted to trade unions.Jere Clemens King, ''Foch versus Clemenceau: France and German Dismemberment, 1918-1919'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960), p. 9.

Bibliography

* Serina, Elena (2020), ''Nuovi elementi sul rapporto fra Action Française e Santa Sede: il ruolo di Louis Dimier nella difesa di Maurras'', «Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo» (2), pp. 497–518.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimier, Louis 1865 births 1943 deaths French art historians French male non-fiction writers People affiliated with Action Française