The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine
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[67] Alexis Chevalier, "Les Frères des écoles chrétiennes après la
Révolution," p. 93. (Report by Portalis approved by the First consul, Frimaire to, year XII.) "Henceforth," says Portalis, "the superior- general at Rome abandons all inspection of the Christian Brothers. In France, it is understood that the Brothers will have a superior general resident at Lyons." [68] D'Haussonville, V., p. 148. [69] Fortress in the Italian Alps. (SR.) [70] D'Haussonville, V., p. 148. Letter of Napoleon to the Minister of Worship, March 3, 1811 (omitted in the published correspondence). [71] Ibid., IV.,p.133. (Letter by Napoleon, Sep. 2, 1809, omitted in the "Correspondence.") [72] Concordat, articles 4, 5, 16. [73] Articles Organiques, I., pp. 2, 6. [74] Code pénal, decree of Feb. 16-20, 1810, article 207. [75] Napoleon's own expressions: "I may regard myself as the head of the Catholic ministry, since the Pope has crowned me." (Pelet de la Lozère, p. 210, July 17, 1806.) - Note the word crowned (sacré). Napoleon, as well as former kings, considers himself as clothed with ecclesiastical dignity. [76] On the sense and bearing of Gallican maxims cf. the whole of the |
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