THE FIGARO MAGAZINE.
- A real fight is taking place today around French secularism.
How do you explain the return of this burning question after a period of calm?
Eric Anceau.
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After centuries of tension and sometimes even violence in France, around religious issues, republican secularism has effectively allowed a short 20th century of tranquility, even if the adoption of the 1905 law which constitutes its matrix has made in pain.
Then, there were indeed two more crises linked to the school question - the Debré law which threw the secular left and the supporters of public education into the streets in 1960 and, symmetrically, the Savary bill which provoked the same thing with the right and the supporters of the free school in 1984 - but everything ended up being back to normal.
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