The French Revolution, marked by its anti-clericalism ... the nuns would offer their lives for the salvation of France and the Church. Since then, each nun daily offered herself for the salvation ...

Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times After the French Revolution, church properties were seized by the state, which eventually took responsibility for overseeing most of them. But the central ...

The French Revolution would be led by shopkeepers ... taxes and they took on the incredibly wealthy and powerful Catholic church. Above all, they declared the rights of man, the equality of ...