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Title: Bonaparte and the consulate
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Thibaudeau, Antoine-Claire, comte, 1765-1854 Fortescue, George Knottesford, 1847-1912 Thibaudeau, Antoine-Claire, comte, 1765-1854
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 France -- History Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ee all thepriests who had been arbitrarily imprisoned by the Directors, andstrongly expressed his sympathy with their sufferings. During the course of the year 1800 the great majority of exiledpriests had returned to France, religious services were being celebratedthroughout the country, and the church bells, which for years hadbeen absolutely silenced, were now to be heard in town and country. The sentiments of N. in the dialogue which opens this chapterare precisely those expressed by Thibaudeau in his Memoirs of theCoTivention a?id Directory. In these volumes he professes a philosophicindifference in matters of religion, and gently rebukes those of hiscolleagues who foam at the mouth when they hear the word Priest.But neither he nor the vast majority of those who had been membersof the Convention or of the Corps Législatif were any longer capableof doing justice when an Émigré or a priest were concerned. Theyhad spent so many of the best years of their lives in denouncing nobles
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IK IIKST CONSUL AT MAI.MAISON l;v J. 11. IsAUliV THE CONCORDAT 153 and priests that they had come to believe in their own denunciations,and to make it an article of the creed of a Virtuous Republican that every Émigré and every clergyman was a vice in being, whom tobe hated needs but to be seen.) EARLY in 1801 it became known that Bonaparte wasnegotiating a Concordat with the Court of Rome. ThePope sent-(in June 1801) as his plenipotentiaries. Cardinal Con-salvi, Spina, and Caselli ; while the First^Consul appointed JosephBonaparte, Crctet, Councillor of State, and the Abbé Bernier asthe representatives of France. The fact that negotiations hadbeen set on foot between the First Consul and the Pope causedpriests and politicians of every description to set to work todevelop plans on their own account for the restoration or thereformation of the Church. On the 21 Prairial (loth June 1801)the Councillor of State N. dined at Malmaison. After dinnerBonaparte strolled with him in the park

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