Civil Constitution of the Clergy
July 12, 1790
The National Assembly turned French priests into salaried state officials, elected locally. Half the clergy refused the new oath. Peasants in the Vendée, Brittany, and the south began to see the Revolution as a war on God. The rupture with Rome would deepen French politics for a century and a half.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.