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Will the French Republic Live Again?

http://www.historians.org/Projects/GIRoundtable/French/French6.htm

A survey of the church's relationship with the French state from an American viewpoint during the Second World War. Stresses the liberalism of the church.

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History of Catholicism in France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_Catholicism_in_France

A collection of open source Wikipedia articles on the history of the Catholic Church in France.

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Gallicanism

http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/gallican.htm

Articles on this movement intent om diminishing papal authority and increasing the power of the state over the church.

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French Revolution

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13009a.htm

A view of the effect on the church, from the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).

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Dagobert, King of the Franks: Grant of an Estate to Monks of St Denis

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/635Dagdenis.html

A sign of increased prominence of the church were grants of land, and this was one of the biggest. From the Medieval Sourcebook.

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Concordat of 1801, The French

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04204a.htm

This name is given to the convention of the 26th Messidor, year IX (July 16, 1802), whereby Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte, First Consul, re-established the Catholic Church in France. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.

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Church in France

http://www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/ac/churchfr.htm

The role of the French church during the 1848 revolution. From the Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions.

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Between Church and State (Bernard Guenee)

http://dannyreviews.com/h/Between_Church_and_State.html

Book review on a book examining the lives of four French prelates in the late Middle Ages.

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Benedictines under the Terror 1794-95

http://www.plantata.org.uk/papers/ebch/1982agius.pdf

The experience of communities of English Benedictine in the French Revolution.

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