Concordat of 1801
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The Concordat of 1801 is an agreement between the First French Republic and the Holy See, signed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII on 15 July 1801 in Paris. It remained in effect un
Allegory of the Concordat of 1801, by Pierre Joseph Célestin François
The signing of the Concordat, 15 July 1801 by François Gérard, 1803-1804
French Consulate
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The Consulate was the top-level government of the First French Republic from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804
Concordat of 1801
…calendar and Christian holidays. The Concordat was drawn up by a commission with three representatives from each party. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was First Consul of the French Republic at the time, appointed Joseph Bonaparte, his brother, Emmanuel Crétet, a counselor of state, and Étienne-Alexandre Bernier, a…
Portrait of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David
Adu C 233 Ducos
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès