Quoting Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
An Open Letter To Confused Catholics
1 January 1985

“In France there is no doubt whatever that the civil laws against Catholic private education were above all the work of Grand Orient Freemasonary, which has increased its pressure upon the President of the Republic and his associates within the government and cabinet ministries” (extract)

Stephen M. Davis
-Rise of French Laïcité: French Secularism From The Reformation To The Twenty-First Century (Evangelical Missiological Society Monograph Series 7) (Pickwick Publications, 2020)