France used to be the oldest daughter of the Church

>France used to be the oldest daughter of the Church
>Now it's one of the most anti-Catholic countries around

How did this even happen? I know that during the Revolution of 1789 a lot of shit went down with the Church because they implicitly supported the Ancien Regime, but Napoleon did his best to mend things (Concordat of 1801). Afterwards we had the disastrous Bourbon restoration, then the Second Empire led by the very pro-Catholic Napoleon III and then the Third Republic. Why did the Third Republic once again devolve into anti-religious sentiment that went way further than 'regular' secularism as it existed in other countries, especially when there was no strict 'need' for it like in the First Republic?

Other urls found in this thread:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_France
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

>France used to be the oldest daughter of the Church
>Not Rome
>Or Italy.
The French nationalism in this board is fucking pathetic.

Francia ring a bell to you, or is this bait?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_France
>The Catholic Church of France, sometimes called the "eldest daughter of the Church" owing to its early and unbroken communion (2nd century) with the bishop of Rome, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church.

if only the Huguenots won

But thats how france was always called. Its not a recent invention. Read a book

Because they finally had enough of the corrupted church eating on the back of the poors. They saw it for what it is, a device in the service of the oppressive state to ease the masses into submission

>talking about """italy""" before the 19th century
Yes, as user said, read a book.

Because of good ol' descartes, voltaire etc?

And Protestantism is only a way to make the masses okay with mass subjugation to economic barons, with the "muh faith and not works" autism.

See, I can meme too.

Cause you needed a reason to make this thread, thats why.