THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-1799 - Darien Public Schools

Secularization of the State
and the Beginning of an
“anti anti-modernity
modernity” Church?
1790- 1790 Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Diocese now borders of a “department
department”
Church officials elected and paid by the
State
Reduced # of bishops from 135 to 83
Pope condemns both the Civil
Constitution and the Declaration of the
Rights of Man and Citizen