The turnaround dramatizes how culture and politics have changed in 25 years. Secular values have been given priority and religious freedoms have been narrowed.
Read moreThis Day in History -- "Paris is Worth a Mass"
On July 25, 1593, Huguenot Henry of Navarre went to St. Denis to convert to Roman Catholicism to secure the French throne, saying, "Paris is well worth a mass."
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