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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Slate
Is France Getting Religion?
In the immigrant suburbs of Paris, secularism is on the wane.
By Elisabeth Eaves
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005, at 8:55 AM PT

PARIS—If France is a fortress of secularism, you wouldn't know it from a Sunday morning visit to St. Denis. Jehovah's Witnesses set up camp each week near the frenetic outdoor market. Muslims wear headscarves and frequent the halal butchers. Back in November, posters advertising end-of-Ramadan celebrations vied for wall space with posters touting Christian preachers on tour. And presiding over this Parisian suburb, which was once known as a bastion of communism, is the Basilica of St. Denis. As the first Gothic cathedral ever built, it's a monument to divinely inspired creativity.

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