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== Law ==
Alsace and the adjacent [[Moselle (department)|Moselle department]] have a [[Local law in Alsace-Moselle|legal system]] slightly different from the rest of France. The statutes in question date from the period 1871–1919 when the area was part of the [[German Empire]]. With the [[Treaty of Versailles|return of Alsace-Lorraine to France]] in 1919, Paris accepted that Alsace and Moselle should retain some local laws in respect of certain matters, especially with regard to hunting, economic life, local government relationships, health insurance and social rights. It includes notably the absence of any [[Laïcité|formal separation between church and state]]: several mainstream denominations of the Christian church benefit from state funding, in contrast to principles applied in the rest of France.