The decision of the Council of State relates to the Nativity scene that the Mayor of Béziers (a French town in Occitaine) Robert Ménard had installed in the Town Hall in 2014. In 2015 and 2016, a crèche was again installed but with a “more cultural and festive dimension“, accompanied by a Christmas tree and a mailbox to write to Santa Claus, Ménard said in April 2017.
The Council of State ruled that Christmas nativity scenes are legal in other public spaces as long as they are not proselytising.
Secularism was a founding principle of the French Republic and was enshrined in a 1905 law separating Church and State.
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