> Tons of France's secular stance, for example, customs and institutions hark back from the era of the French Revolution That's wrong. Secular stances in Fran

> Tons of France's secular stance, for example, customs and institutions hark back from the era of the French Revolution That's wrong. Secular stances in France are mostly coming from the time of the third Republic, beginning at the end of the XIX th century, culminating with the Church-State separation in 1905. But since the third republic was established after the Prussian victory over Napoleon III, you can invoke the Prussians as being responsible for the secular stance in France. /s