The adoption of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy was a significant event during the French revolution because priests and bishops became elected and paid officials. It also ended papal authority over the French church
Marie Curie was the scientist whose private papers had to be decontaminated for two years in the 1990's before being put on file at the National Library in Paris. Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French scientist and chemist who escorted pioneering analysis on radioactivity. She said that being a historian is not without its jeopardies.
