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population were born into the Catholic Church.
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Now, because of the role of the church in the counter-revolution,
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of the great French Revolution,
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and because of the close
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attachment of the Catholic Church to the monarchy,
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that is, support for the ill-fated Comte de Chambord,
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Henri V and all of that,
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you have this tension between the Catholic Church,
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as a public institution,
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and an increasingly powerful state.
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Now, one differentiation that
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you should make is between de-Christianization,