Clerical antisemitism in France ended with the Dreyfus settlement

Evidence

In 1909 Drumont stood for the Academy. Once his antisemitism had been lauded by the Catholics and acclaimed by the people. Now, however, the “greatest historian since Fustel” (Lemaitre) was obliged to yield to Marcel Prévost, author of the somewhat pornographic Demi-Vierges, and the new “immortal” received the congratulations of the Jesuit Father Du Lac. Even the Society of Jesus had composed its quarrel with the Third Republic. The close of the Dreyfus case marked the end of clerical anti-semitism. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 336

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the arc traced in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ where religious institutions lose political standing and modulate their moral panics.