Specimen of a card of French officer; going back to 1904: In front of the rise of the anticlericalism and separation of the Church and the State; in France; the General Louis Andre; Minister for the war (1901-1904) request with the Grand Lodge to draw up cards on the political opinions and the religious behaviors of the French officers. An employee of the masonic lodge communicates these cards to the newspaper "Figaro"; which publishes them on October 27; 1904 and makes burst "the Business of the cards" which leads the minister and the Ministry Emile Combes to be resigned; in 1904 and 1905