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Most of the people of France were devoted Roman Catholics. Why was the Church persecuted during the Reign of Terror?

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During a two-year period known as the Reign of Terror, the episodes of anti-clericalism grew more violent than any in modern European history. The new revolutionary authorities suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, nationalized Church property, exiled 30,000 priests, and killed hundreds more.

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The Church had been corrupt, and the revolutionaries saw all religion as counter-revolutionary.

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