Marc Sangnier (; 3 April 1873,

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– 28 May 1950, Paris) was a French Roman Catholic thinker and politician, who in 1894 founded ''

Le Sillon ("The Furrow", or "The Path") was a French political and religious movement founded by Marc Sangnier (1873 - 1950) which existed from 1894 to 1910. It aimed to bring Catholicism into a greater conformity with French Republican and socialist ideals ...

'' ("The Furrow"), a social Catholic movement.

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Sangnier aimed to bring the Catholic Church into a greater conformity with French Republican ideals and to provide an alternative to anticlerical labour movements. The movement was initially successful, but was eventually condemned by Pope Pius X in the letter ''

Notre charge apostolique ''Notre charge apostolique'' (our Apostolic Mandate) was a papal encyclical promulgated by Pope Pius X on August 15, 1910. Context The Pope took issue with the socialist leanings of the Catholic 'Le Sillon' movement of Marc Sangnier. He sai ...

'' in 1910. A plaque however in the garden of the Marc Sangnier Institute in Boulevard Raspail recalls the visit some years later of Cardinal

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. In 1912 Sangnier founded a replacement group, the Young Republic League to promote his vision of social Catholicism. Sangnier founded a newspaper, ''La Démocratie'', which campaigned for equality for women, proportional representation at elections, and for pacifism. He was also one of the pioneers of the French youth-hostelling movement. In 1928 he employed the 19-year-old

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in his first job, from which he went on to found the Amaury publishing empire.

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(in French) 1873 births 1950 deaths Politicians from Paris French Roman Catholics Young Republic League politicians Popular Republican Movement politicians Members of the 12th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni {{France-politician-stub