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revival of intense religiosity, in some regions.
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You find the same thing in the 1870s,
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again the Republic of the Moral Order.
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And so that's what the church wanted people to believe,
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and many historians believe that as well.
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But along came a historian called Michel Vovelle,
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who used to be the Professor of the French Revolution
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at the Sorbonne and he's kind of a friend of mine,
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or at least a good acquaintance,
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a very old dude now.
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And Vovelle was interested to
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see whether that old-time religion was already crumbling