• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Wasn’t that one is the big shit shows in France, that the church didn’t want to give up land? They were forced to eventually

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      8 days ago

      There was a disestablishment during the Revolution that seized land from the Catholic church. Revolutionaries also socialized vital records and institutionalized divorce, which had all previously been under the church’s dominion.