Abstract
'Who today has not heard of abbe Gamier? Who cannot remember the lively figure of this priest, a veritable apostle of our times who... travelled from one end of France to the other... sowing in the souls of the people the seed of the Gospel message? '1 These words of Garnier's biographer, abbe Rosat, written in 1936, sixteen years after his death, testify to the impact that he made on Catholics of his own and the succeeding generation. Today however, abb6 Rosat's question is no longer rhetorical. French historians, often prompted by a commitment to liberal trends within the Church, whose roots they wish to emphasise, have, in recent years, devoted considerable attention to the Social Catholic and the Christian Democratic movements in the nine-
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