[2] Descoqs was a supporter of Action Française and opponent of the emergent nouvelle théologie, which brought him into conflict with prominent liberal Catholic intellectuals such as Maurice Blondel[3] and fellow Jesuits, including his students Henri de Lubac, Yves de Montcheuil, and Gaston Fessard[4] as well as Joseph Maréchal.
[7] He is noted as the author of a synthesis of Le Dilemme de Marc Sangnier [FR], a work of Charles Maurras.
[8] For Descoqs, "friends and adversaries cannot avoid being struck by the power of his dialectic, the sharpness of his ideas, the accent of profound conviction, seeing the perfection of language which marks without any possible contest this new work of M.
[10] Henri de Lubac criticizes Descoqs at length in The Mystery of the Supernatural, arguing that he misrepresents the relationship between nature and grace and contributes to the misinterpretation of Thomas Aquinas in Neo-Scholasticism.
[11] Descoqs was born in Plomb, Normandy and died of typhoid fever[12] in Villefranche, Rhône.