The celebrations of the Sainte-Geneviève, patron saint of the gendarmerie, contrary to secularism?

At the request of the Fédération ardéchoise et drômise de Libre Pensée, on 19 March 2025, the Administrative Court of Lyon ruled that "the decision of the colonel commanding the departmental gendarmerie group of the Ardèche to organize a celebration of the Sainte-Geneviève on 30 November 2022 is annulled as this celebration includes a religious office within a church." The court found that the holding of this mass did not respect Article 1 of th…

Several times already studied by the administrative and legal services, the problem of the Sainte-Geneviève was thought to be solved. This is clearly not yet a settled question. In particular for certain secular or even anti-clerical associations and organizations, which regularly attack decisions on the organization of celebrations of the Sainte-Geneviève by the gendarmes. At the heart of the problem raised by these organizations, the possible …