LA BRIÈRE, YVES-MARIE LEROY de. - Jesuit, writer on international law, b. at Vif (Isère) on 30 Jan. 1877, d. at Buenos Aires on 25 Feb. 1941. First a professor of fundamental theology (1907-1909) among the French Jesuits who had taken refuge at Hastings (England), he was soon (1909) called to Paris, to the editorial staff of Etudes, where he remained until the end; in 1915 he added to this the chair, then established at the Institut Catholique in Paris, of international social morality in its relations with contemporary problems.
In Etudes he was responsible for the Chronique religieuse des temps présents, in which with a masterly hand, grace of style, and acute and vigilant insight, he followed, from the Catholic point of view, the movements of ideas and the events of interest to Catholicism in France and in the world; part of these chronicles from Jan. 1910 to Dec. 1924 were collected in volumes under the title: Les luttes présentes de l'Eglise (6 vols., Paris 1917-27). Other principal works: Comment concilier autorité et liberté (ibid. 1929); La communauté des puissances (ibid. 1932); Eglise et paix (ibid. 1932); L'Eglise et son gouvernement (ibid. 1935); L'organisation internationale du monde contemporain et la Papauté souveraine (3 vols., ibid. 1924-27). Other writings concern the questions that arose and were studied during the First and Second World Wars, e.g.: Les puissances belligérantes et la médiation pontificale (ibid. 1918); Evolution de la doctrine et de la pratique en matière de représailles (ibid. 1922); Le droit de juste guerre (ibid. 1938); Le droit concordataire et la nouvelle Europe (ibid. 1939); Les droits et devoirs des belligérants (ibid. 1940), and the Roman question closed with the Conciliation, e.g.: Le droit concordataire et le nouvel Etat pontifical (ibid. 1929); La constitution juridique de la Cité du Vatican (ibid. 1930).
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