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because they have a lot of property,
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particularly in areas like
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Brittany and in Burgundy and in ile-de-France, around Paris.
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But the church has enormous amounts of money,
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and enormous amounts of land.
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What they do is they essentially nationalize the church,
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the details you can get,
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and they force people to take an oath
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to the French revolution, to the nation.
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In certain parts of France,
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particularly those that rose up against the Revolution,
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the priests don't take the oath. They refuse to.