L'Ãglise face à Duplessis: le clergé catholique face à la politique québécoise de 1930 à 1960
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Abstract
More than any other Québec Premier, Maurice Duplessis symbolizes the alliance between Church and State during an era in which religious conservatism prevailed. Contrasted in this respect with his predecessors, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and Adelard Godbout, he is seen as the leader who delayed the modernization of Quebec by opposing the secularisation of the state and allowing bishops to dictate his policy. The National Union and the Catholic Church are perceived as allies who ensured their collective grip on the population. What if this view were anachronistic? Research on the relationship between Church and State in Quebec is still in its embryonic stages. Historians have raised contemporary perceptions to the level of historical reality, as this reflects their prejudices. Far from marking a restoration of ultramontanism, the two Duplessis governments in fact represent a major setback regarding the influence of bishops on the State. As for the clergy, we will see that it never was a loyal ally on whom the National Union could rely in election time. The political perspectives of priests and bishops during this period cannot possibly be reduced to support for the National Union and an aversion to the Liberal Party. We will see that the clergy did not base its political sympathies on social conservatism and the clericalism of the various parties. Religious archives, which are gradually becoming available to researchers, allow us to cast a fresh glance at this yet little known aspect of our history. This thesis, which studies the relationship between Church and State over a period of thirty years, aims to demonstrate that Maurice Duplessis was in continuity with his predecessors, Taschereau and Godbout, and his successor, Jean Lesage. All these governments, in their respective ways, helped pave the way for the secularization of Quebec, a process that stretched over a century and in which the Quiet Revolution was but one step among many.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.012 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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