♦ Church-state separation in the French Constitution of 1795 and Law of 1905: Excerpts ♦ France cancels the concordat ♦ Benjamin Franklin's contribution to French secularism ♦ Secularism as precondition for human rights ♦ French baby's human rights cause confrontation with Pope
♦ Napoleon’s concordat: Introduction and summary ♦ Napoleon’s concordat (1801): text ♦ Organic Articles: (1801): text (How Napoleon tamed the concordat) ♦ Imperial catechism (1806): Extract ♦ Napoleon’s concordat lives on and the Kaiser adds another
This Nazi puppet regime quietly passed laws which amounted to a kind of creeping concordat that eroded French secularism. ♦ Marshal Pétain's marriage of convenience with the Church ♦ Text of Pétain's law of 25 December 1942 — his Christmas gift to the Church
In secular France no one calls them concordats and most French people don't realise that they actually have 14 of them.
♦ Steady erosion of church-state separation in France today ♦ About the Trinity-of-the-Mountains concordats (1828, 1974, 1999, 2005) ♦ Concordat on church & convent of Trinity-of-the-Mountains, Rome (1999): text ♦ Higher education concordat (2008): text
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