France is a country where freedom of thought and religion are preserved on the basis of the 1789 Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen. The Republic is founded on the principle of secularism (or “freedom of conscience”) of the 1880s, Jules Ferry laws of 1905 and is based under a French law on separation of church and state. Catholicism, the religion of the majority of French is no longer the state religion, which existed before the Revolution of 1789 and in the different regimes of non-Republican 19th century (the Restoration, the July Monarchy and Second Empire French has been). The main religions in France including Russian Orthodox, Armenian Christianity, Islam and Judaism among others so that a multi-confessional country.
France is a country where freedom of thought and religion are preserved on the basis of the 1789 Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen. The Republic is founded on the principle of secularism (or “freedom of conscience”) of the 1880s, Jules Ferry laws of 1905 and is based under a French law on separation of church and state. Catholicism, the religion of the majority of French is no longer the state religion, which existed before the Revolution of 1789 and in the different regimes of non-Republican 19th century (the Restoration, the July Monarchy and Second Empire French has been). The main religions in France including Russian Orthodox, Armenian Christianity, Islam and Judaism among others so that a multi-confessional country.