Sculpture dedicated Rome square Paul Painlevé Paris From left right La Joliette neighbourhood (old docks) ferry ship docks new port Euroméditerranée business district (CMA CGM Tower) surrounding areas! Bastille Day military parade Marseille 2012 The population of city of Lyon proper was 491,268 January 2011 census, 14% of whom were born outside Metropolitan FranceMain sights.
Sainte-Geneviève Library Catholicism has been predominant religion France more than millennium though not actively practised today was Among 47,000 religious buildings France 94% Roman Catholic During French Revolution activists conducted brutal campaign of de-Christianisation ending Catholic Church state religion some cases clergy churches were attacked with iconoclasm stripping churches of statues ornament After back forth of Catholic royal secular republican governments during 19th century France established laïcité passage of 1905 law Separation of Churches StateSince 1905 French Government has followed principle of laïcité which prohibited from recognising any specific right religious community (except legacy statutes like those of military chaplains local law Alsace-Moselle) recognises religious organisations according formal legal criteria that do not address religious doctrine Conversely religious organisations expected refrain from intervening policy-making Certain groups such Scientology Children of God Unification Church or Order of Solar Temple considered cults (sectes French), therefore do not have same status recognised religions France Secte considered pejorative term FranceHealth. Hollywood-style Marseille sign Main article Transport Paris Major religious communities Marseille include Transport Painting sculpture A map of Greater Paris Metropolis (Métropole du Grand Paris) its 131 communes. Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon contemporary art museum, Main articles Arrondissements of Marseille Cantons of Marseille Magdalena Frackowiak Paris Fashion Week (Fall 2011).
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