Marie-Albert Janvier

Marie-Albert Janvier in 1914

Marie-Albert Janvier OP (19 December 1860 – 28 April 1938), better known as R. P. Janvier, was a French Roman Catholic priest and writer who was almoner to the artistic and literary circles in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.

Biography

Marie-Albert Janvier was born at Saint-Méen-le-Grand, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany. He was ordained priest on July 27, 1884 in Innsbruck. Preacher of Lent at Notre-Dame from 1903 to 1924, he had an important influence on intellectual circles by restoring the "Fraternity of the Third Order of Men". The latter attracted men like Robert Vallery-Radot, George Desvallières, Maurice Denis and Henri Ghéon.

He was also almoner to many groups: the Union of Catholics in Fine Arts and the Corporation des Publicistes Chrétiens, which included the Syndicat des Journalistes Français. In the years 1910-1915, he encouraged the Syndicat des journalistes français and the Syndicat des Écrivains français, presided over by Paul Bourget, to merge. René Bazin was elected President on April 18, 1915. He founded a little later in 1918, with his friend Bazin, president of the new group, the Nouvelles Religieuses, which counted among its editors a student named Hubert Beuve-Méry, future founder and director of the daily newspaper Le Monde. Janvier also co-fonded Bureau Catholique de Presse in 1918.

Marie-Albert Janvier died in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine.

Works

• Le Fondement de la Morale (1903)
• La Liberté (1904)
• Les Passions (1905)
• La Vertu (1906)
• Le Vice et le Péché (1907–1908; 2 volumes)
• La Loi (1909)
• L'Action Catholique (1911)
• L'Espérance (1913)
• Le Voeu National (1919)
• L'Ame Dominicaine (1933)
• La Passion (1935)
• La Maison de Dieu (1935)
• Dans Votre Église (1938)

External links

• Works by Marie-Albert Janvier at Gallica