Chronicle of the ideological ferment that led to the enactment of a law
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The law on the separation of Churches and the State, published on 9 December 1905, was the culmination of a long process of secularisation that began with the French Revolution. It proclaims freedom of conscience, guarantees the free exercise of all worship, and establishes a new regime (political, legal, and juridical) for worship.
“We proposed in Parliament –I said in the general debate, and I repeat it today– a plan for the separation very clear, but at the same time extensive, very fair, that is, able to reconcile the rights and interests of the state with the concern for freedom of conscience. This plan is, at the moment, the only plan whose passage is possible and, I would add, desirable. Therefore, I plead for my friends from the democratic majority, especially my friends from the extreme Left, to resist the desire for an anti-clerical protest, which would not only remain ineffective, but could lay a dangerous weapon in the hands of the enemies of the Republic.”
ARISTIDE BRIAND
(April 10, 1905, speech in the French Parliament)
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