Atlas of France

France
France with administrative divisions shown.
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The French Republic is a country in Western Europe. Irreligion and Christianity are the predominant belief systems and French is the official language.

France emerged as a unified Kingdom in the Middle Ages. It became a Republic for the first time in 1792, became an Empire under Napoleon in 1799, and later became a Republic again in 1870. The current Constitution of the French Republic was adopted in 1958.

The Bahá’í Faith was first present in France in 1898 and a small community was established in Paris in the early 1900s which was the first in Europe. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá notably visiting the country in the early 1910s. The Second World War significantly disrupted the Bahá’ís of France necessitating the re-establishment of the community in the 1940s. The community was consolidated in the 1950s and 1960s, began social and economic development efforts in the 1980s and 1990s, and remains active to the present day.

Official Website: http://www.bahai.fr/
Statistics
Population: 64,720,690
Bahá’í pop.: 5,000
History
First local Bahá’í: 1898, May Maxwell
First Local Assembly: 1919, Paris
First National Assembly: 1958

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