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The law separating the Churches and the State — The law founding French laïcité, 9 December 1905
“The Republic ensures freedom of conscience”; it “neither recognizes, pays, nor subsidizes any religion.” The law of 9 December 1905 abrogated the regime of the 1801 Concordat — a hundred and four years closed — at the price of the inventories quarrel. (Editorial synthesis)
The law separating the Churches and the State took place on 9 December 1905. (source: Légifrance)
The law separating the Churches and the State ended in freedom of conscience guaranteed and no religion recognized, paid, or subsidized. (source: Légifrance)
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