POLI 476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jacques Chirac, Great Fear, General Idea
26 May 2016
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Week 14 (april 11, 13): the french state and the islamic veil. Pr cis : is the debate over the muslim headscarf a substantive debate over ideas, or is it symptomatic of something more pernicious ? revolution against the moving to the 19th century very secularist and anti catholic. Has to do with france being split of the relationship between state and religion 1789 (cid:0) ancient regime and executed priests and expropriated the land that belonged to church . Following the french revolution continued to be divided, there was 2 frances one very conservative stance and one very republican and secular, anti clerical, anti catholic and religious minorities -_> coalition and merging (cid:0) Ancient regime, conservative and supporters of the monarchy. Education: dividing line (cid:0) catholic influence over education and able to close 5000 catholic private schools. First bill that legally divided 1905 state/church (cid:0) much of the french press (cid:0)
