This lecture examines religious conflicts in nineteenth-century Geneva, focusing on the Kulturkampf and tensions between radicals, Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church. It investigates the sources’ bias — Grand Council minutes emphasise opponents’ voices — and asks why Catholic responses remain muted, how the Church defended itself, and what ideological and practical stakes were at play, including the fate of Notre-Dame. The session also explores how the conflict was resolved, which concessions were made, and what traces these struggles leave in Geneva’s contemporary management of religious pluralism.
In French.
