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"In a country with a Christian tradition, are we going to suppress heritage in the name of secularism?"

2022-09-20T09:39:25.418Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The Nantes Court of Appeal has ordered that the statue of the Archangel Saint-Michel, located on the forecourt of a church in Sables-d'Olonne, be moved in the name of secularism. For historian Maxime Tandonnet, this case illustrates the ideal of a clean slate, at the center of...


A fine observer of French political life and a regular contributor to FigaroVox, Maxime Tandonnet notably published

André Tardieu.

The misunderstood

(Perrin, 2019) and

Georges Bidault: from the Resistance to French Algeria

(Perrin, 2022).

The municipality of Sables-d'Olonne could be forced to remove a statue of the Archangel Saint-Michel from the public square where it was installed in October 2018. The Nantes administrative court of appeal confirmed on September 16 last a judgment of the administrative court of Nantes, seized by a federation of free thought, considering this work as having a religious character.

However, considers the court "

the installation of this statue on a public site is prohibited by article 28 of the law of December 9, 1905 concerning the separation of Church and State

".

The administrative justice thus applies the law of 1905 according to which: “

It is forbidden, in the future, to raise or affix any sign or religious emblem on the monuments…

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Source: lefigaro

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