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, the novelist

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, and the priest and literary critic Henry Moeller, who was to be the main editor. Founded by progressive

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s directly influenced by the

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in France, ''Durendal'' also published non-Catholic writers. Although free of any aesthetic partisanship, the review rapidly tended to

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and

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, with

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and

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influences. In 1899–1900, the review sponsored a "Salon of Religious Art".

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