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French civic exam 2026, Rights and duties
Which freedom allows a person to have no religion?
An official question of the French civic exam, with its answer and the official text that proves it, in French and English.
Multi-year residence permit no. 94
Quelle liberté permet à une personne de ne pas avoir de religion ?
Which freedom allows a person to have no religion?
Answer. Freedom of conscience, guaranteed by secularism.
La liberté de conscience, garantie par la laïcité.
Thanks to secularism, everyone is free to believe or not to believe. A person can have a religion, change it, or have none at all.
The official text that proves it
« La laïcité garantit la liberté de conscience pour tous, c’est-à-dire que chaque personne est libre d’avoir ou de ne pas avoir de religion, d’en changer ou de ne plus en avoir. »
Secularism guarantees freedom of conscience for everyone, meaning that every person is free to have or not have a religion, to change it or to stop having one.
In French, with its English meaning. read the official sheet
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