https://www.medias-presse.info/leglise-et-le-ralliement-philippe-prevost/60030/

"Philippe Prévost, a lawyer and historian, is the author of about ten books.

Kontre Kulture Publishing had the good idea to reissue this book, which was first published in 2001.

The origin of this book begins with a reflection by its author on the state of the Catholic Church and the Second Vatican Council, which "Protestantized" it. But on reflection, Philip Prevost quickly understood that problems in the Church appeared long before the Second Vatican Council.

Thus, the conciliar revolution sends us to another major event in the history of the Church: the condemnation of L'Action francaise in 1926. And from 1926 to 1939, the year of the death of Pope Pius XI, the French episcopate was renewed from top to bottom, moving from a majority clearly hostile to the Republic and its secular foundation to a near unanimity in its favour.

But this upheaval was accompanied by another: when, after the Pope's decisions, the priests asked the readers of L'Action française to stop reading this newspaper or to withdraw from Catholic organizations, the royalist leaders replied that if their presence was considered corrupting, they called on their supporters to stop participating in any form of activity of a Catholic association. On the intellectual level, it was a disaster, with the supporters of French Action being systematically replaced by modernists and liberals. The agents of subversion could begin to demand a reform of the Church, which they wanted on all levels: liturgical, missionary, theological. It was no longer up to heretics to go to the truth, but up to the Church to abandon the Truth to go to them. This was later one of the main axes of Vatican II, which continues to this day.

The author does not omit to recall that the origin of the Church's crisis predates the last Council and the condemnation of 1926. Philippe Prévost quite naturally refers us to a history that has been forgotten nowadays, to the first rallying and to what happened following the publication of the encyclical Au milieu des sollicitudes. This book traces the facts before trying to understand the psychological, political and religious reasons that may have led a pope to perform such an act, and then analyses its consequences.

In his conclusion, the author recalls that Vatican II was the Council that founded another religion, a religion born in 1789, incompatible therefore with that of Syllabus, incompatible with what the Church, qualified as Constantinian, had defended and taught since the revelation and which claims to reconcile Christ and the world, forgetting that the two are antinomic.

L'Eglise et le ralliement, Philippe Prévost, Kontre Kulture Editions, 560 pages, 19 euros"

To be ordered online on the publisher's website: https://www.kontrekulture.com/produit/l-eglise-et-le-ralliement

I am finding some controversial comments in French regarding this author, and according to some, Philippe Prevost is non-Catholic enemy of the faith.

For example, see the 2nd review on this 1-page online PDF review of his book, here: http://www.a-c-r-f.com/docuмents/Tract/LHR_Loubier_Prevost.pdf  The reviewer accuses the author of attacking the pre-conciliar popes and the Catholic faith with this book:

"These two authors are not Catholics. They are even enemies of Catholics. The fruit of these ideas will be an apostasy of the young and the not so young in the face of these alleged faults of the Popes. As the gallicans taught, the Popes are wrong, but neither the bishops nor the civil authorities were wrong. Prévost and Loubier are doing it again.
Their writings are revolting montages. They want us to "swallow" that the ancient Popes were wrong...He is mistaken, is indeed Pope and the conciliar sect is indeed the Catholic Church.
We hope a cleric will rise to answer them. We have all the docuмents at his disposal for a scathing refutation. That he read the authors mentioned, The Roman Church in front of the Revolution of Crétineau-Joly, the Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca, Gallicanism and Jansenism of the Planted Abbot, and others.
LOUIS-HUBERT REMY"

And then on a French Facebook page, we find this alarming claim regarding the author:

"Philippe Prévost Catholic historian calls on Catholics to remove the Old Testament from the Bible and admits its falsity."
https://www.facebook.com/MickaelDesouche/photos/a.1009805042470078/1171336336316947/?type=3

In short, what I thought was a book regarding the pre-Vatican II roots of ecclesiastical compromise with the world powers (e.g., Pius XI and the Cristeros; Action Francaise, etc.) MAY in fact be an attack on the Church itself by an author who MAY be hostile to the true faith.  Or, it could be that some are wrongly considering it as an attack on the faith when it really is not (e.g., becauase these papal failings pertained to the secular political manauvers and actions of pre-conciliar Rome, but not to doctrinal integrity or the teaching office).

I just can't tell which is the case (but the Facebook quote allegation regarding the author is obviously a problem).