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  2. Napoleon and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon reconciled with the Catholic Church and asked for a chaplain, saying "it would rest my soul to hear Mass". [4] The pope petitioned the British to allow this, and sent the Abbé Ange Vignali to Saint Helena. On 20 April 1821, Napoleon told General Charles Tristan, "I was born in the Catholic religion. I wish to fulfill the duties it ...

  3. Concordat of 1801 - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church gave up all its claims to Church lands that were confiscated after 1790. Sunday was reestablished as a "festival", effective Easter Sunday , 18 April 1802. The rest of the French Republican calendar , which had been abolished, was not replaced by the traditional Gregorian calendar until 1 January 1806.

  4. Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    The agreement recognized the Catholic Church as the majority church of France and in return the Church recognized Napoleon's regime, undercutting much of the ground from royalists. The Concordat confirmed the seizure of Church lands and endowments during the revolution, but reintroduced state salaries for the clergy.

  5. First French Empire - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon attracted power and imperial status and gathered support for his changes of French institutions, such as the Concordat of 1801 which confirmed the Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restored some of its civil status. Napoleon by this time, however, thought himself more of an enlightened despot.

  6. Pope Pius VI - Wikipedia

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    Pius VI condemned the French Revolution and the suppression of the Catholic Church in France that resulted from it. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Papal army and occupied the Papal States in 1796. In 1798, upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power, Pius was taken prisoner and transported to France.

  7. Napoleon and Protestants - Wikipedia

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    As a result of Napoleon's actions, French Protestants generally considered themselves emancipated and integrated into national life in the period from 1802 until Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814. The Charter of 1814 , the constitution introduced by King Louis XVIII , maintained the freedom of Protestants as it had been under Napoleon while ...

  8. Pope Pius VII - Wikipedia

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    The church gave up all claims to church lands that were taken after 1790. Sunday was reestablished as a "festival", effective Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802. As pope, he followed a policy of cooperation with the French Republic and subsequently Empire. He was present at the coronation of Napoleon in 1804.

  9. La Madeleine, Paris - Wikipedia

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    The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (French: église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, pronounced [eɡliz sɛ̃t maʁi madlɛn]), or less formally, La Madeleine ([la madlɛn]), is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.