 Proust inherited much of his mother's political outlook, which was supportive of the French Third Republic and near the liberal centre of French politics.In an 1892 article published in "Le Banquet" entitled "L'Irréligion d'État", Proust condemned extreme anti-clerical measures such as the expulsion of monks, observing that "one might just be surprised that the negation of religion should bring in its wake the same fanaticism, intolerance, and persecution as religion itself.