Napoleon Bonaparte’s Concordat and the French Revolution.pdf

Constructing the Past Volume 11 | Issue 1 Article 5 2010 Napoleon Bonaparte’s Concordat and the French Revolution Kristen A . Hosack Illinois Wesleyan University , khosack@ Recommended Citation Hosack, Kristen A. (2010) Napoleon Bonaparte’s Concordat and the French Revolution, Constructing the Past: Vol. 11: Iss. 1, Article 5. Available at: /constructing/vol11/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the History Department at Digital Commons @ IWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Constructing the Past by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IWU. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@. ©Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Concordat and the French Revolution Abstract n 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius XV I signed an agreement called the Concordat, which was an agreement between the French state and the Catholic Church that reconciled the Church with the anti- religious policies established during the French Revolution. This paper discusses the conflicting viewpoints held by various historians concerning the legacy of the Concordat; that is, did the agreement fulfill the religious goals of the early revolutionaries or did it betray their ideals? Ultimately, the paper concludes that the Concordat did indeed uphold the religious principles established during the early stages of the Revolution. Keywords Napoleon Bonaparte, Concordat, French Revolution Acknowledgements A ston, Nigel. Religion and Revolution in France 1780-1804. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2000. Brown, Stuart J. and Timothy Tackett. Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 Conner, Susan P. The Age of Napoleon. Westport, CT: