L'Action nationale
| Type | monthly |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Independent |
| Editor | Robert Laplante |
| Founded | 1917 |
| Political alignment |
Sovereigntism, Social democracy |
| Website | action-nationale.qc.ca |
L'Action nationale (ISSN 0001-7469) is a French-language monthly published in Quebec, Canada.
The magazine publishes critical analysis of Quebec's linguistic, social, cultural and economic realities. Since 1917, some 17,000 authors have appeared in it, including such Quebec intellectuals such as André Laurendeau, Pierre Vadeboncoeur, Pierre Trudeau, Lionel Groulx, Marcel Rioux, Richard Ares, Fernand Dumont and Esdras Minville.
At first a Catholic-Nationalist publication, L'Action nationale secular, moved to a secular, separatist stance, and became one of the main inspirations for Québécois nationalism in the 1960s, the decade that saw the Quiet Revolution and the first successes of the Parti québécois.
L'Action nationale was founded in 1917 under the name L'action française (French Action) by members of the Ligue des droits du français (League for French Rights). It was published in Montreal from 1917 to 1927. The first director was Omer Héroux. He was followed by the Catholic priest Lionel Groulx, whose name would become strongly associated with the periodical.
With his colleagues, Groulx dedicated himself to the defense of the French Language, the Catholic Church, traditional values, and agriculture; all of which seemed under threat from Quebec's industrialization and urbanization. The journal also aimed to find solutions to the problem of economic and intellectual (educational) development in Quebec. Two annual reports were particularly notable. The 1922 report examined the possibility of Quebec's independence, and the 1927 report criticized the place allotted to Quebec and French Canadians since Canadian Confederation in 1867.
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