<P> The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution is a conventional description of the results of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France between the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801 , forming the basis of the later and less radical laïcité policies . The goal of the campaign between 1793 and 1794 ranged from the public reclamation of the massive amounts of land , power , and money held by the Catholic Church in France to the termination of Catholic religious practice and of the religion itself . There has been much scholarly debate over whether the movement was popularly motivated . </P>
when did the french government take over the church
between the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801