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Religion in France
France
is a country where
freedom of religion
and freedom of thought are guaranteed by virtue of the 1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
. The
Republic
is based on the principle of
laïcité
(or "freedom of conscience") enforced by the 1880s
Jules Ferry laws
and the
1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State
.
Roman Catholicism
, the religion of a majority of French people, is no longer the
state religion
that it was before the
1789 Revolution
and throughout the various, non-republican regimes of the 19th century (the
Restoration
, the
July Monarchy
and the
Second French Empire
).
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