Ernest Jouin
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Ernest Jouin. Photo by Agence Rol (February 1928)
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| Born | 21 December 1844 Angers, France |
| Died | 27 June 1932 Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
Monsignor Ernest Jouin (21 December 1844 – 27 June 1932) was a French Roman Catholic priest, writer, translator and political journalist. He founded the International Review of Secret Societies (1912–39).
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Biography
Ernest Jouin was born in Angers, the son of a cabinetmaker from Anjou. Fatherless at the age of four, he was educated at the colleges of Mongazon, Saint-Julien and Combrée. He went to the seminary in Angers, where he was ordained a priest in 1868 by Guillaume Angebault.[1] His older brother Amédée Jouin (1835–1889) was also a priest.[lower-alpha 1] Another of his brothers, Henry Jouin, was a noted art historian.[4]
Ernest Jouin was successively vicar at Brézé, Angers and Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris. He then became chaplain at Sainte-Geneviève, still in Paris. In July 1882, he became parish priest of Joinville-le-Pont (then in the Seine departement, now in the Val-de-Marne). He remained in this position until 1886, where he had "his first run-ins with Freemasonry".[5] For eight years he published the magazine Le Catéchisme.
He then became curate at Saint-Augustin and parish priest at Saint-Medard. As curate of Saint-Augustin parish in the late 1880s and early 1890s he was a principal figure in the nationalist cult of Joan of Arc. In 1887, he founded the first parish patronage for secular school children. For them he began a career as a playwright with plays such as: Bernadette, Jeanne d'Arc, Clotilde and above all La Nativité, which had over 130 performances in Paris. In 1902, Father Jouin had his mystery play La Passion performed at the "Nouveau Théâtre".[6]
His relations with theatre circles resulted in the first communion, at the age of 72, of the Opéra ballet conductor Édouard Pluque and the Christian death of the artist Numa Auguez.
In 1907, Jouin was prosecuted before the Criminal Court for breaching the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State[7] for distributing a printed brochure in his church on 9 December 1906 announcing a mourning mass for the following Wednesday.[8]
During the World War I, he set up and supported an ambulance at his own expense.[9] On 23 March 1918, Jouin was elevated to the dignity of Honorary Prelate by Pope Benedict XV. Pope Pius XI praised Jouin for "combating our mortal [Jewish] enemy" and appointed him to high papal office as a protonotary apostolic.[10]
As well as publishing historical works, Jouin wrote extensively on the subject of Freemasonry; he also founded the Revue internationale des sociétés secrètes (RISS) in 1912. A denouncer of the political and spiritual aims of secret societies, Jouin was a specialist in esotericism, occultism and Freemasonry. RISS was one of the first French periodicals to reproduce The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Father Jouin exerted a considerable influence on the political literature of the time. In this context, his influence extended beyond France: as early as 1910, and especially after the World War I, he was in contact with Umberto Benigni.
He is the author of the famous thesis according to which Leo XIII resisted an attempted Masonic infiltration of the Vatican, long before the P2 Lodge affair but after the Alta Vendita affair.
Ernest Jouin died at the 8th arrondissement of Paris at the age of 87. In 1932, a few months after the death of the founder of the Anti-Judeo-Masonic League, its members formed a group called the Ernest Jouin Circle.
See also
Works
- La Nativité (1893; pastoral in 3 parts)
- Notre-Dame de Lourdes (1900; oratorio in three parts; music by Alexandre Georges)
- La Passion (1902; mystery play in 16 tableaux with historical notes; music by Alexandre Georges)
- Le Quatrocentenaire de Luther et le bi-centenaire de la franc-maçonnerie (1917)
- Le Drapeau national de Sacré-Coeur (1918)
- Le Péril judéo-maçonnique (1920–1923; 6 volumes)
- Noces de diamant de M. Eugène Gigout: organiste de Saint-Augustin (1923)
- L'après-guerre, la guerre, l'avant-guerre 1870-1914 (1927)
- Le chemin de la croix et l'Esprit Saint (1928)
Translations
- Jacob Brafman, Les Sources de l'impérialisme juif: Le Qahal (1925)
- James Anderson, Livre des constitutions maçonniques (1930)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Amédée Jouin, also known by the religious name of Augustin Jouin,[2] was prior of the Flavigny Abbey, Côte-d'Or (1878) then of the Corbara Abbey, Corsica (1884). A member of the Dominican Order, Amédée Jouin volunteered as chaplain in the Northern Army (1870).[3]
Citations
- ↑ Aubert, R. (2003). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, Vol. 28. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, p. 318.
- ↑ Aubert, R. (2003). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, Vol. 28. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, p. 317.
- ↑ Jouin, Henry (1909). Le R. P. Jouin des frères prêcheurs, aumônier volontaire à l'armée du nord, prieur de Flavigny, de Paris et de Corbara. Paris: P. Lethielleux.
- ↑ Huchard, V. (2003). Jouin, Henry (-Auguste). Grove Art Online. Retrieved 28 Feb. 2024, from https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000045231.
- ↑ James, Marie-France (2008). Ésotérisme et christianisme: autour de René Guénon, Vol. 2. Ésotérisme, occultisme, franc-maçonnerie et christianisme aux XIXe et XXe siècles: explorations bio-bibliographiques. Éditeur Fernand Lanore.
- ↑ Reyval, Albert (1924). L'église et le théâtre: essai historique. Paris: Bloud & Gay.
- ↑ Danet, Albert (1907). Le procès de l'abbé Jouin; plaidoirie. Paris: Imp. Téqui et Guillonneau.
- ↑ Gazette des Tribunaux (11 avril 1907).
- ↑ L'Ordre (28 Juin 1932), p. 3.
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References
- Chauvin, Charles (2016). Portrait de trois curés de Paris aux XIXe et XXe siècles: Ernest Jouin, Eugène Edmond Loutil, alias Pierre l'Ermite, Georges Chevrot. Paris: Médiaspaul.
- Kreis, Emmanuel (2017). Quis ut Deus? Antijudéo-maçonnisme et occultisme en France sous la IIIe République. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
- Sauvêtre, Joseph (1936). Un bon serviteur de l'église, Mgr Jouin, protonotaire apostolique, curé de Saint-Augustin (1844-1932). Paris: Casterman.
- Valbousquet, Nina (2020). Catholique e antisémite. Le réseau de Mgr Benigni, 1918-1934. Paris: CNRS Editions.
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