Edmond Paris
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Edmond Paris (25 January 1894 – 1970) was a French author on history and anti-Catholic polemicist.
Personal life
[edit]He was born in Paris to a Roman Catholic family of scholars. Having come from a religious background, he was very much interested in philosophical, religious, and social matters right from his childhood.
After he left Sorbonne where he was a student, he completed his studies in various parts of the world, such as Rome, Geneva, Salamanca, and Montreal.[1]
Work
[edit]According to the author Philip J. Cohen, Paris was "the author of several rabidly anti-Catholic works." Cohen also observes that Paris is described on the jacket of Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945 (1961) as "a French historian from a Catholic family".[2]
L. E. Lee, writing about Genocide in Satellite Croatia, described the work as frightening documentation of the Ustaše.[3]
The journalist Richard West noted that Paris was one of a group of "anti-Catholic polemicists" who used events in the Independent State of Croatia[4] to attack the Catholic Church as a whole. West observes that Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945 was first published in French, and later in English. It was subsequently reprinted by a Protestant publisher in the United States as Convert or Die..., with a "blood-red cover showing a man kneeling at gunpoint in front of a priest". West opines that "In spite of this lurid presentation, Paris's book is based on careful research, much of it from Magnum Crimen. He relies to a great extent on the testimony of Serbs who fled Yugoslavia after the war. However, their testimony bears out what we know of the Ustasha massacres from German, Italian and Yugoslav government sources".[5]
Bibliography
[edit]French:
- Le Vatican contre la France (1957)
- Le Vatican contre l'Europe (1959)
- Les mysteres de Lourdes, La Salette, Fatima[6]
- L'histoire secrète des jésuites
- Regards sur l'Education Catholique: à Travers Couvents, Presbytères, Sacristies, Confessionnaux, écoles ... Le fer rouge sur des plaies hideuses (1972)
- Bréviaire de la Superstition Catholique (1974)
- L'enseignement Catholique ou le Merveilleux Catholique (1978?)
English translations:
- Paris, Edmond (1961). Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941-1945: A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres. Chicago: American Institute for Balkan Affairs.
- The Vatican against Europe (1961)
- The Secret History of the Jesuits (1975)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Paris – The Vatican Against Europe (Suppressed Role of Vatican in fomenting Both World Wars)(1964)
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 199.
- ^ Loyd E. Lee: World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998 p. 369
- ^ Jelinek, Yeshayahu (1980). "An Authoritarian Parliament: The Croatian State Sabor of 1942". Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 22 (2): 260–273. doi:10.1080/00085006.1980.11091627. JSTOR 40867719.
- ^ Richard West: Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia, Faber & Faber, 2012 ISBN 9780571281107, Notes chapter, second page
- ^ Paris, Edmond (1971). "Les mystères de Lourdes, la Salette, Fatima: Les marchands du temple, mercantilisme religieux, marché d'illusions".
Works cited
[edit]- Cohen, Philip J. (1996). Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-760-7.
