# Émile Combes government pursues anticlerical policy (1902)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1902-emile-combes-government-pursues-anticlerical-policy
Location: France

Republican anticlericalism intensified conflict with Catholic congregations. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Émile Loubet (President of the French Republic). Émile Combes government pursues anticlerical policy is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Émile Combes government pursues anticlerical policy is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France.

Ruler at the time: [Émile Loubet](https://history-france.com/rulers/emile-loubet)

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