1. Dossiers de L’Action Populaire. Numbers 223 to 449. (Jan. 10, 1930 to May 25, 1940). Paris: Spes. These numbers cover the period dealt with in this paper, and go up to the last issue published during the second world war. Very useful was Revue de l’Action Populaire, 69 (June, 1953), a fiftieth-anniversary issue, which had a special article on the history of the movement since its beginning, a prospectus of future hopes and plans, and a list of the collections and works published since 1920 on social and economic matters by the members of the organization. Between 1969 and 1981 a two-volume history of the work of Action Populaire was published. Paul Droulers, Politique sociale et christianisme: Le P. Desbuquois et l’Action Populaire. I: 1903–1918; II: 1919–1946 (Paris: Edition Ouvrières, 1969–1981). The first volume bears as title the first part of the combined title above; the seond volume has as title the latter part of the combined title. The name of the journal itself has been changed several times, just enough to cause confusion in indexing, cataloguing and shelving in libraries. Revue de l’Action Populaire was the name until World War I, (RAP), Dossiers from 1920 until it ceased publication in 1940 (DAP), Travaux from 1946 to 1949, (TAP), and Revue again since then. For the sake of convenience the general term Action Populaire will be used throughout this paper to stand for the journal and for the organization of which it was the principal voice.
2. René Rémond, La Droite en France de 1815 à nos jours (Paris: Aubier, 1954), pp. 241–242.
3. “Cinquante années d’apostolat social”, RAP, 69 (June, 1953), 482.
4. “Cinquante années d’apostolat social”, RAP, 69 (June, 1953), 484. From 1903 to 1914 Action Populaire published more than four hundred pamphlets and brochures, and fifty-nine books. The periodicals had a combined circulation of more than twenty-five thousand, and the throwaways had been distributed in the millions.
5. “Cinquante années d’apostolat social”, RAP, 69 (June, 1953), 485.