Dechristianization of France during the French Revolution
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The Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution is a conventional description of the results of a number of separate policies, conducted by various governments of France between the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801, forming the basis of the later and less radical Laïcité movement. There has been much scholarly debate over whether the movement was popularly motivated or something forced upon the people by those in power.
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See also
- Anti-clericalism
- Anti-Catholicism
- Atheist state
- Cult of Reason
- Dechristianisation
- Persecution of Christians
- Roman Catholicism in France
- September Massacres
- People engaged in the campaign: Jacques Hébert, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, Joseph Fouché
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