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Histoire des deux concordats de la République française et de la République cisalpine conclus en 1801 et 1803 entre Napoléon Bonaparte et le Saint-Siège--: suivie d'une relation de son couronnement comme empereur des français par Pie VII--d'après des documents inédits, extraits des archives secrètes
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against the revolutionary state. It did not restore the vast Church lands and endowments that had been seized during the Revolution and sold off. Catholic clergy returned from exile, or from hiding, and resumed their traditional positions in their traditional churches. Very few parishes continued to
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the Pope than previous French regimes had, and church lands lost during the Revolution were not returned. Napoleon took a utilitarian approach to the role of religion. He could now win favour with French Catholics while also controlling Rome in a political sense. Napoleon once told his brother
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of the revolutionary regime. While the Concordat restored much power to the papacy, the balance of church-state relations tilted firmly in Bonaparte's favour. He selected the bishops and supervised church finances.
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had taken Church properties and issued the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which made the Church a department of the state, effectively removing it from papal authority. At the time, the nationalised
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A declaration that "Catholicism was the religion of the great majority of the French" but not the official state religion, thus maintaining religious freedom, in particular with respect to Protestants.
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in April 1801, "Skillful conquerors have not got entangled with priests. They can both contain them and use them." As a part of the Concordat, he presented another set of laws called the
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Spina had been Papal Majordomo for Pius VI, and had followed him in his arrest and deportation to France in 1799. Salvador Miranda, Librarian Emeritus, Florida International University,
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Bonaparte and the Pope both found the Concordat useful. Similar arrangements were made with the Church in territories controlled by France, especially Italy and Germany.
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and Catholics and solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France, with most of its civil status restored. This resolved the hostility of devout
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towards the change in the relationship between the Catholic Church and the French government. Subsequent laws abolished the traditional
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Bonaparte, le concordat de 1801 et le cardinal Consalvi ; suivi, Des deux letters au père Theiner sur le pape ClĂ©ment XIV
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was the official church of France, but it was essentially Catholicism. The Civil Constitution caused hostility among the
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The Concordat was drawn up by a commission with three representatives from each party. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was
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William, Roberts (1999). "Napoleon, the Concordat of 1801, and Its Consequences". In Coppa, Frank J. (ed.).
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Roberts, William. "Napoleon, the Concordat of 1801, and Its Consequences." in: Frank J. Coppa, ed.,
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Vilmer, Jean-Baptiste Jeangéne. "Comment on the Concordat of 1801 between France and the Holy See",
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The Concordat of 1801: A Study of the Problem of Nationalism in the Relations of Church and State
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The state would pay clerical salaries and the clergy swore an oath of allegiance to the state.
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The Catholic Church gave up all its claims to Church lands that were confiscated after 1790.
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Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler
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Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler
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Mémoires du Cardinal Consalvi, avec une introduction et des notes de J.Crétineau-Joly
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Edwards, Bela Bates; Peters, Absalom; Agnew, John Holmes; Treat, Selah Burr (1840).
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The Papacy had the right to depose bishops; the French government still, since the
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The main terms of the Concordat of 1801 between France and Pope Pius VII included:
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See drop-down essay on "Religion and Politics until the French Revolution"
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Goyau, Georges. "The French Concordat of 1801." The Catholic Encyclopedia
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Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 8 November 2015
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Documents upon Napoleon and the Reorganization of Religion
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Biography: Or, Third Division of The English Encyclopedia
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L'histoire, le texte et la destinée du Concordat de 1801
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Sunday was reestablished as a "festival", effective
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Concordat of 1802

Pierre Joseph Célestin François
agreement
First French Republic
Holy See
Napoleon Bonaparte
Pope Pius VII
Paris
Alsace–Lorraine
remains in force
French Revolution
French Catholics
Civil Constitution of the Clergy

François Gérard
National Assembly
Gallican Church
Vendeans
Gregorian calendar
First Consul
Joseph Bonaparte
Emmanuel Crétet
Étienne-Alexandre Bernier
Ercole Consalvi
Giuseppe Spina
papacy
Lucien
Organic Articles
Concordat of Bologna

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