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Events on Saturday 9 December 1905 1
1905France enacts separation of church and stateLaw of 1905 ends state funding of religionThe French National Assembly passed a law formally separating church and state, ending government financing of religious institutions and guaranteeing freedom of religious practice. The law abrogated Napoleon's 1801 Concordat and provoked strong opposition from the Catholic Church. It remains a cornerstone of French secularism, or laicite, to this day.