Islam was forbidden in France during the French Third Republic (1870–1940).
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The Short Version
No evidence shows that the French Third Republic legally forbade Islam. The historical record instead shows legal protection for religious exercise in principle, alongside heavy state control and unequal treatment of Muslims, especially in colonial territories. Those restrictions were real, but they were not the same as banning the religion.
Caveats
Do not confuse colonial regulation, surveillance, or discrimination against Muslims with a formal legal prohibition of Islam.
Anti-clerical policies of the Third Republic often targeted Catholic congregations and cannot be generalized into a ban on all religions.
Conditions differed sharply between metropolitan France and colonial territories; repression in the empire does not prove Islam was outlawed across France.