A reference encyclopedia article on the campaign to dismantle Catholic worship in France between 1790 and 1794, covering the October 1793 law making sheltering a nonjuring priest a capital offense, the roughly 30,000 priests forced to leave the country and the several hundred who stayed and were executed, the November 1793 Cult of Reason ceremony at Notre Dame, Robespierre's rival Cult of the Supreme Being, and the eventual 1801 Concordat that closed the period. Published under a Creative Commons license derived from an earlier Encyclopaedia Britannica article and revised by named editors, checkable against the standard academic accounts of the period it cites.
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Reliability TierReference-encyclopedia tier 3, derived from an older Encyclopaedia Britannica article and edited under named review; used here for the priest deportation and execution figures, which match the standard secondary literature on the period. Sources
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