The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe
CHAPTER VI.
THE THIRD REPUBLIC.
The Franco-Prussian War-- The Commune of 1870-- Its Victims-- Establishment of Third Republic-- Beginning of the War on the Church-- Gambetta-- Paul Bert-- Jules Ferry-- War on the Religious Orders in 1880-- Irreligious Education-- Secularization of Schools-- Peaceful Advances of Pope Leo XIII.-- Anarchy and Socialism Gaining Ground-- The Affair of Dreyfus-- France at the End of the Nineteenth Century Page 276