La vie religieuse des catholiques dans l'ouest, maine-et-loire, vendee, a l'epoque revolutionnaire
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Abstract EN:
The religious crisis brought about by the french revolution enables us to fathom the depth of the believers ' religious commitment. Although churches, were secularized, priests hunted and man forbidden, the religious life of angevin and vendeen catholics was far from annihilated. The county government's will to eradicate the catholic cult was countered by yhe strength of the people's spiritual resistance. The revolutionnary upheaval only succeeded in uprooting the christian cult in a tiny area which had already been sumitted to protestant influence.
Abstract FR:
La crise religieuse vecue pendant la revolution permet de verifier la profondeur du sentiment religieux des fideles. Malgre la secularisation de l'espace, la persecution contre les pretres, l'interdiction du culte, la vie religieuse des catholiques angevins et vendeens n'est pas aneantie. La volonte d'eradication du culte des administrateurs departementaux n'a d'egale que la force de la resistance spirituelle. La tourmente revolutionnaire n'a reussi, qu'a l'echelle d'une micro-region, sa dechristianisation.