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The solemn ceremony at Notre-Dame promulgating the Concordat marked only the beginning of the reestablishment of the Church in France. The Concordat and the Organic Articles had established its structure and the principles on which it would subsist.1 The entente between Church and State brought to fruition the first aim of Bonaparte’s gradually evolving policy with regard to religion: use the Church as one of the unifying forces in France. Subsequent to and consequent on the Concordat he hoped that the accord with the Church would facilitate his control over Europe and also reunite under French control such former foreign missions as China, the Near East and Madagascar.
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© 1974 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Carven, J.W. (1974). Introduction. In: Napoleon and the Lazarists. International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d’Histoire des idees, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1617-9_7
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