In a backlash against the "Manifesto of the 121" and the Jeanson trial, and all the publicity both had attracted, in October a counter-manifesto appeared, signed by some 300 spokesmen of the Right, including the pied noir first soldier of France, Marshal Juin. … A few days later the Assembly of French Cardinals and Bishops issued a statement condemning desertion and subversive activities, but disapproving of torture and stressing that orders to implement it should be disobeyed.

XREF: Connects to the broader French-Algerian war context and the 'Manifesto of the 121' intellectuals' protests against torture and conscription.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1275