228 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
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“Paris is worth a mass” was the realistic response of Protestant Henry IV, who changed his faith to secure the throne of France, to the central importance of the French Catholic Church. Principle and pragmatism have since been, in alteration, the two prime constituents of French Catholicism. In his book The Catholic Church and the French Nation 1589–1989 (originally published in 1990), Norman... Read more
Foreword 1. Towards a royal religion: the establishment of conformity. From the Catholic League through the reign of Louis XIV 2. “A Frenchman without being a Catholic”: Catholicism and citizenship in the eighteenth century 3. Prophecy or order: the nineteenth-century Church in search of a role 4. French Catholics and the Third Republic. From Dreyfus to Pétain 5. The Church in contemporary France
Biography
Norman Ravitch is Professor Emeritus of History at University of California, Riverside
