It also promulgated a constitution that made the king the chief executive official but deprived him of legislative authority.
NAPOLEON’S EMPIRE
1. The pact, known as the Concordat, provided that the French state would retain church lands seized during the revolution, but the state agreed to pay clerics’ salaries, recognize Roman Catholic Christianity as the preferred faith of France, and extend freedom of religion to Protestant Christians and Jews.
2. The Civil Code affirmed the political and…
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