Les débats parlementaires lors de la loi de 1905

Abstract

The Concordat lasted in France from its signing between Bonaparte and pope Pius the seventh till the Separation of the Church and the State, hundred years later in December 1905. Gerard Unger relates the long debates which took place in the Chamber of Deputies as soon as 1903 within a committee, composed of 33 members and created in order to examine the subject. This committee was chaired Ferdinand Buisson, former Jules Ferry’s colleague, and had Aristide Briand as reporter. Briand will have to oppose at the same time to the right wing adversaries of the Separation and own "friends”. The complete bill is submitted to the Chamber on March 21st 1905 where the debate opens which will last till July 3rd. At the Senate, the discussion opens on November 9th. On December 6th, the bill passes the Senate: 181 votes for, 102 votes against. It is published in the Journal officiel on December 11th 1905. A century later, the December 1905 law has been nine times modified.

Regards sur les classes des écoles congréganistes françaises d'Orient en 1906 à travers le rapport de Marcel Charlot, inspecteur de l'Instruction publique

“…« Ainsi pensait-on détruire un enseignement opposé à la République et aux idées modernes » 19 . L'année précédente, la France avait déjà rompu ses relations diplomatiques avec le Vatican 20 . Néanmoins, « anticléricale et laïque à l'intérieur, la France reste à l'extérieur «La fille aînée de l'Église», système dont le patriotisme des missionnaires et des pèlerins français assure le bon fonctionnement sur le terrain » 21 .…”