Even more provocative was its founder the president, possibly the most famous priest in the country at the time, in devout friend of president, he was at first a staunch traditionnalist and a firm believer in the union of thrne and altar, turning here back on what people called ” the filthy modern tide “, the arch-ennemy of the ” philosophes ” advocated a form of theocracy in which the absolute power of the monarch inspired and guided by the parlement would only be limited by the crowd, the ultramontansm, so repugnant to french revolutionnary political organizations.
He was still very much enamoured of theocracy, but the people instead of the king was to be the mediator he strougly advocated public liberties.
