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In 1925, during heated legislative debates on funding the French diplomatic mission to the [[Holy See]], [[Édouard Herriot]], president of the council of ministers, repeatedly denounced the French Seminary for its harmful influence on the French clergy, calling it a place where "political doctrines in direct contradiction of the principles and laws of the [French] Republic flourish". Others named Le Floch in connection with the suppression of books, decried the Seminary's influence on the selection of bishops and charged it was responsible for the adoption of the Roman collar in place of the French clergy's traditional ''{{ill|Rabat (vestment)|lt=rabat|fr|Rabat (vêtement)}}''.{{efn|The word ''rabat'' has come to be used as a synonym for ''dickey'', a piece of black cloth that covers that part of a priest's chest that is not covered by a suit jacket. In France before the introduction of the Roman collar, it referred to a rectangular piece of black or white cloth that hung from the collar and covered only the center of the chest, familiar from depictions of such French clerics as [[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet|Bossuet]], [[John Vianney]], and [[Jean-Baptiste de La Salle]]. }} Herriot and others referenced specific statements made in classes at the Seminary.<ref name=airiauParl>{{cite journal | access-date = 28 October 2021 | url = https://www.cairn.info/revue-parlements1-2010-1-page-144.htm | language = fr | title = L'autonomie des politiques envers leurs conseillers: À propos d'un règlement de comptes à la Chambre des députés (1925) | first = Paul | last = Airiau | journal = Parlement[s], Revue d'histoire politique | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | date = 2010 | pages = 144–54 }}</ref>
In 1927, [[Pope Pius XI]] asked him to resign. The ostensible rationale was the fact that his political views, especially his support for the right-wing political group [[Action Française]] and its founder [[Charles Maurras]], were at odds with the Vatican's attempt at rapprochement with the French government. French government officials had also sought his removal and unsympathetic clerics both in France and Rome sought his removal.<ref name=airiau/><ref name=koren11>{{cite book | access-date = 27 October 2021 | first = Henry J. | last = Koren | title = The Spiritans: A History of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost | url = https://dsc.duq.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=15&article=1000&context=spiritan-dsss&type=additional | chapter = Chapter 11: The Generalate of Archbishop Louis Le Hunsec, 1926-1950 | pages = 284–8 | series= Duquesne Studies, Spritan Series vol. 1 | date = 1958 | publisher = Duquesne University}}</ref>{{efn|On 8 September 1926, Pope Pius had forbidden Catholics to belong to Action Française or read its publications.<ref name=baglioni/>}} French Cardinal [[Louis Billot]], an ideological ally of Le Floch, resigned from the [[College of Cardinals]] in September 1927 because he could not support the pope's position on Action Française.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pope in Allocution Silent on Disputes| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/12/20/96686894.pdf |accessdate=27 March 2017|work=New York Times|date=20 December 1927}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Billot Dead at 85; A Retired Cardinal| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/12/19/118430500.pdf|accessdate=27 March 2017|work=New York Times|date=19 December 1931}}</ref>
In December 1927, Le Floch drew a distinction between the role of clerics and political activists. He wrote that he and Billot "fought against liberalism, secularism, the principles of the revolution, from the doctrinal point of view. Now it so happened that the Action Française was fighting against the same plagues, but on the political plane."<ref name=weber>{{cite book | pages= 251-4 | first = Eugen | last = Weber | title = Action Française: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth-Century France | publisher = Stanford University Press | date = 1962 }}</ref>
Le Floch resigned and returned to France. He lived first in his order's seminary at [[Orly]] and later in a chateau in the south of France. His students published a large volume of essays in 1937 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination. In 1939 he visited Rome and met privately with [[Pope Pius XII]].<ref
Archbishop [[Marcel Lefebvre]], the outspoken critic of the [[Second Vatican Council]] who incurred excommunication for consecrating bishops without papal approval in 1988, credited Le Floch with providing him with an orthodox seminary formation, "leaving aside all personal ideas in order to embrace the mind of the Church".<ref>{{cite news | title = Marcel Lefebvre: The Biography | url = http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php/index.php?section=articles&subsection=show_article&article_id=2453 | url-status= live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211026163005/http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php/index.php?section=articles&subsection=show_article&article_id=2453 |archive-date= 26 October 2021 | first =John | last =Vennari | work =The Angelus | date=August 2005 | quote=I will never thank God enough for allowing me to know that extraordinary man. }} Vennari provides a detailed summary of Bernard Tissier De Mallerais, ''The Biography of Marcel Lefebvre'' (Angelus Press, 2004).</ref>
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