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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
Historians see anti-clericalism as an important force in French politics beginning with the Revolution and extending through the late 19th century Third Republic. The Church/State "cleavage" is one of the primary dimensions of political conflict in the influential model of European political development and party organization proposed by Lipset and Rokkan in their classic opening essay to Party Systems and Voter Alignments. |
And the irony is that Combe, the man responsible for the French law of 1905 was a very devout Catholic, who thought that religion should be kept as far as possible from the political sphere.