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France is a secular country since 1905. The law states that religious is to be practiced in private. Hence, it is illegal to wear any big religious symbols in public (may it be a big bling-bling christian cross over your sweater or religious-specific full body veil).

The French motto is "freedom, equality, fraternity". What people often forget, is that this motto means equality and fraternity for judgments: everyone has the right to have a lawyer, even if they can't pay for one, and everyone is free to choose their own lawyer.