Pour une histoire politique du religieux L’exemple de la Séparation des Églises et de l’État

If what we today call French secularism is better defined and understood, it is precisely thanks to the functionalist approach of the study of this political decision, that which led the historian to prise apart the parliamentary and governmental mechanics of the initial elaboration of the law. The law of the separation of Churches and State exemplifies the political history of the religious.