Cée, Jean-Paul

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Cée, Jean-Paul (Born 1839) Cée, the founder and president of the Comité d’ Études Morales (Committee on Moral Laws), was an officer in the French navy. He was in Rome during the pontificate of Pius IX, observed the splendor of Roman Catholic rites, and while in Dahomey witnessed human sacrifices. In Paris at the 1889 Universal Freethought Congress, he discussed his travels and recommended that freethinkers found a Committee on Moral Laws, which idea was accepted. Cée’s position on socialism was nearer to the English concept of nationalism, not to the socialism of Marx, Liebknecht, or Bebel. {PUT}