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

royalist A royalist supports a particular monarch as head of state for a particular kingdom, or of a particular dynastic claim. In the abstract, this position is royalism. It is distinct from monarchism, which advocates a monarchical system of governm ...

. Dimier was among the many early members of the

Action Française Action may refer to: * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fiction * Action game, a genre of video game Film * Action film, a genre of film * ''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford * ''Action'' (1980 fil ...

who were practising Catholics (along with Bernard de Vésins and Léon de Montesquiou). They helped

Charles Maurras Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (; ; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, politician, poet, and critic. He was an organizer and principal philosopher of ''Action Française'', a political movement that is monarchist, anti-par ...

(1868–1952) develop the royalist league's pro-Catholic policies. In 1915, during the

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, 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

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into around 100 free cities and allocating German lands to

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and Sweden, with the

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and the Ruhr being a workers' state entrusted to

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.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