Publisher's Synopsis
This second volume of Antinon Debidour's tour de force historical survey of Church/State relations in France fills 400 pages. The 3 volume project explores the problem of separation of Chruch and State in 1906 and shows how France set an example of how a modern European and Christian nation state managed the secularization of society. Debidour was head of the history department at the University of Nancy, and was given unique access to the archives of the Ministry of Worship. His approach was in favor of the Republic, and was happily free from Royalist, Legitimist, or Ultramontane sentiments. Debidour's work has not been surpassed.
Major developments in this second volume include consequences of the Battle of Sedan (1870); the government of National Defense and the Roman Question; Moral Order and the Kulturkampf; Mac-Mahon and the return of clericalism; expulsion of the Jesuits and new republican "villainous" laws; Girls' secondary education; issues of divorce and military service of seminarians; Leo XIII; impact of foreign missionaries; controversy over secularity of primary education; the Esprit Nouveau; anticlerical campaign of 1884; threat of Boulangism.
Previous Frank H. Wallis translations:
Blanche of Castile, Queen and Regent of France, 1188-1252 (2015). From Élie Berger, Histoire de Blanche de Castille, Reine de France (Paris, 1895).
Charles VII. 6 vols. (2020-21). From Gaston Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Charles VII (Paris, 1881-1891).
Queen Margot and the end of the Valois, 1553-1615 (2021). From Charles Merki, La Reine Margot et la fin des Valois (1553-1615) (Paris, 1905).
