"...a finely crafted study...
The wealth of her scholarly evidence aside, Tilburg develops her] arguments with magisterial care, resulting in a book that deserves the attention of all students of contemporary French history.
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Highly recommended." - Choice In France\'s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. "...a finely crafted study...
The wealth of her scholarly evidence aside, Tilburg develops her] arguments with magisterial care, resulting in a book that deserves the attention of all students of contemporary French history