[Footnote 151:  Edmond Blanc, “Napoleon I; ses Institutions,” p. 27.]

[Footnote 152:  Theiner, “Hist. des deux Concordats,” vol. i., p. 21.]

[Footnote 153:  Thibaudeau estimated that of the population of 35,000,000 the following assortment might be made:  Protestants, Jews, and Theophilanthropists, 3,000,000; Catholics, 15,000,000, equally divided between orthodox and constitutionals; and as many as 17,000,000 professing no belief whatever.]

[Footnote 154:  See Roederer, “Oeuvres,” vol. iii., p. 475.  On the discontent of the officers, see Pasquier’s “Mems.,” vol. i., ch. vii.; also Marmont’s “Mems.,” bk. vi.]

[Footnote 155:  See the drafts in Count Boulay de la Meurthe’s “Negociation du Concordat,” vol. ii., pp. 58 and 268.]

[Footnote 156:  Theiner, vol. i., pp. 193 and 196.]

[Footnote 157:  Meneval, “Mems.,” vol. i., p. 81.]

[Footnote 158:  Thiers omits any notice of this strange transaction.  Lanfrey describes it, but unfortunately relies on the melodramatic version given in Consalvi’s “Memoirs,” which were written many years later and are far less trustworthy than the Cardinal’s letters written at the time.  In his careful review of all the documentary evidence, Count Boulay de la Meurthe (vol. iii., p. 201, note) concludes that the new project of the Concordat (No.  VIII.) was drawn up by Hauterive, was “submitted immediately to the approbation of the First Consul,” and thereupon formed the basis of the long and heated discussion of July 14th between the Papal and French plenipotentiaries.  A facsimile of this interesting document, with all the erasures, is appended at the end of his volume.]

[Footnote 159:  Pasquier, “Mems.,” vol. i., ch. vii.  Two of the organic articles portended the abolition of the revolutionary calendar.  The first restored the old names of the days of the week; the second ordered that Sunday should be the day of rest for all public functionaries.  The observance of decadis thenceforth ceased; but the months of the revolutionary calendar were observed until the close of the year 1805.  Theophilanthropy was similarly treated:  when its votaries applied for a building, their request was refused on the ground that their cult came within the domain of philosophy, not of any actual religion!  A small number of priests and of their parishioners refused to recognize the Concordat; and even to-day there are a few of these anti-concordataires.]

[Footnote 160:  Chaptal, “Souvenirs,” pp. 237-239.  Lucien Bonaparte, “Mems.,” vol. ii., p. 201, quotes his brother Joseph’s opinion of the Concordat:  “Un pas retrograde et irreflechi de la nation qui s’y soumettait.”]

[Footnote 161:  Thibaudeau, “Consulat,” ch. xxvi.]

[Footnote 162:  “Code Napoleon,” art. 148.]