Edmond Paris (25 January 1894 – 1970) was a French author on history and anti-Catholic polemicist.
Personal life He was born in Paris to a Roman Catholic family of scholars. Having come from a religious background, he was very much interested in philosophical, religious, and social matters right from his childhood.
After he left Sorbonne where he was a student, he completed his studies in various parts of the world, such as Rome, Geneva, Salamanca, and Montreal. Paris – The Vatican Against Europe (Suppressed Role of Vatican in fomenting Both World Wars)(1964)
Work According to the author Philip J. Cohen, Paris was "the author of several rabidly anti-Catholic works." Cohen also observes that Paris is described on the jacket of Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945 (1961) as "a French historian from a Catholic family".
L. E. Lee, writing about Genocide in Satellite Croatia, described the work as frightening documentation of the Ustaše.Loyd E. Lee: World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998 p. 369
The journalist Richard West says that Paris was one of a group of "anti-Catholic polemicists" who used events in the Independent State of Croatia to attack the Catholic Church as a whole. West said that Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945 was first published in French, and later in English. It was subsequently reprinted by a Protestant publisher in the United States as Convert or Die..., with a "blood-red cover showing a man kneeling at gunpoint in front of a priest". West said that "In spite of this lurid presentation, Paris's book is based on careful research, much of it from Magnum Crimen. He relies to a great extent on the testimony of Serbs who fled Yugoslavia after the war. However, their testimony bears out what we know of the Ustasha massacres from German, Italian and Yugoslav government sources".Richard West: Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia, Faber & Faber, 2012 , Notes chapter, second page
Bibliography
French: Le Vatican contre la France (1957) Le Vatican contre l'Europe (1959) Les mysteres de Lourdes, La Salette, Fatima L'histoire secrète des jésuites Regards sur l'Education Catholique: à Travers Couvents, Presbytères, Sacristies, Confessionnaux, écoles ... Le fer rouge sur des plaies hideuses (1972) Bréviaire de la Superstition Catholique (1974) L'enseignement Catholique ou le Merveilleux Catholique (1978?)
English translations:
The Vatican against Europe (1961) The Secret History of the Jesuits (1975)
See also Viktor Novak Avro Manhattan Branko Bokun Djoko Slijepčević Philip Vincent
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