Clemens von Alexandrien: Sein Leben, Werk und philosophisch-theologisches Denken (review)

reporting to the religious as well as civilian authorities on anything that might have threatened the Pax Gallica on the colonial frontier, constituted an unmatched source of dependable intelligence on the ground.Their efficiency was, however, hampered by competition between religious orders both in metropolitan France and in each of these colonies, while the relationship between overzealous bishops and a fiercely secular colonial administration was anything but easy, as show in the case of Bishop Paul-François Puginier, the vicar apostolic in Hanoi. Devotion to the Mère-Patrie could indeed take many forms, some happening to be plainly contradictory.