Affaire Des Fiches

L'Affaire des Fiches de délation (“affair of the cards of denunciation”) was a political scandal in France in 1904-1905 in which it was discovered that the militantly anticlerical War Minister under Emile Combes, General Louis André, was determining promotions based on a huge card index on public officials, detailing which were Catholic and who attended Mass, with a view to preventing their promotions. It is also called in French "L'Affaire des casseroles" ; casserole being slang for spy.

Both Combes and André were Freemasons , and much of the information had been collected by the Masonic Grand Orient de France. Discovery of this by the media undermined the government.