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Events on Monday 29 March 1880 1
1880Ferry Decrees issued in FranceAnti-clerical laws target Catholic religious ordersThe French government issued decrees on 29 March 1880 restricting unauthorized religious congregations, most notably ordering the Jesuits to disband within France. The decrees intensified the Third Republic's conflict with the Catholic Church over control of education. Several orders had their property confiscated or were expelled in the months that followed.