Religion Annabelle and Katie

Religion “ Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet” Napoleon There was a schism with the Church due to the Revolution – Constitutional Clergy and the Refractory Clergy In the Revolution the Civil Constitution of the Clergy provided an election for the clergy and made them take an oath This split the public between a loyalty to God and a loyalty to Government

“ Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet” Napoleon

There was a schism with the Church due to the Revolution – Constitutional Clergy and the Refractory Clergy

In the Revolution the Civil Constitution of the Clergy provided an election for the clergy and made them take an oath

This split the public between a loyalty to God and a loyalty to Government

Concordat July 1801 New Pope had been appointed with more moderate and flexible ideas Napoleon was a victor at Marengo which had Italy “at his mercy” Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII Church was established in France again Napoleon negotiated himself with the Pope Terms: Not official state religion but religion of the masses Government nominated bishops but Pope chose them Organic Articles (French Concordat) gave Catholics and Protestants equal rights – Pope did not know

New Pope had been appointed with more moderate and flexible ideas

Napoleon was a victor at Marengo which had Italy “at his mercy”

Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII

Church was established in France again

Napoleon negotiated himself with the Pope

Terms:

Not official state religion but religion of the masses

Government nominated bishops but Pope chose them

Organic Articles (French Concordat) gave Catholics and Protestants equal rights – Pope did not know

Conclusion Undermined royalist as Church sided with Napoleon United the clergy Consolidated Napoleon’s own power Support of peasant farmers Removed opponents – made no friends Could be used as a tool of propaganda But many revolutionaries hated the Church still Priests did no more than what they legally had to

Undermined royalist as Church sided with Napoleon

United the clergy

Consolidated Napoleon’s own power

Support of peasant farmers

Removed opponents – made no friends

Could be used as a tool of propaganda

But many revolutionaries hated the Church still

Priests did no more than what they legally had to