Question
Note to players: Original-language term required. A 1905 law enacting this principle sparked the Morizot affair and the “Second Textbook War.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this constitutional principle whose groundwork was laid out in the Ferry (“fay-REE”) Laws. A 2004 act based on this principle bans students from wearing items like headscarves.
ANSWER: laïcité ("lah-EE-see-tay") [prompt on French secularism]
[10h] Despite prime minister Émile Combes’s work on the 1905 law, he was forced to resign before its passage due to this event. Louis André’s prevention of the advancement of Catholic military officials was exposed in this event.
ANSWER: the Affair of the Cards [or L'affaire des fiches; or the Affair of the Casseroles]
[10e] French discourse regarding the separation of church and state reached its peak during this late 19th to early 20th-century affair, in which a Jewish French officer was wrongfully convicted of treason.
ANSWER: Dreyfus affair [or affaire Dreyfus]
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Summary
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| Hu up Jinning they Tao | Import Pandas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| |madam| | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |