[272] Histoire du mariage des prêtres en France, par M. Grégoire, ancien évêque de Blois, 1826, p. v. Compare the details in the Appendice to the Etudes of M. Gazier, before cited. That writer’s account is the more decisive seeing that his bias is clerical, and that, writing before M. Aulard, he had to a considerable extent retained the old illusion as to the “decreeing of atheism” by the Convention (p. 313). See pp. 230–260 as to the readjustment effected by Grégoire, while the conservative clergy were still striving to undo the Revolution. [↑]
[273] Heroes and Hero-Worship: Napoleon. [↑]
[274] See the Sentiments de Napoléon sur le Christianisme: conversations recueillies à Sainte-Hélène par le Comte de Montholon, 1841. Many of the utterances here set forth are irreconcilable with Napoleon’s general tone. [↑]
[275] O’Meara, Napoléon en Exil, ed. Lacroix, 1897, ii, 39. [↑]
[276] Ph. Gonnard, Les origines de la légende Napoléonienne, 1906, p. 258. [↑]
[278] Pasquier, cited by Rose, Life of Napoleon, ed. 1913, i, 282. The Concordat was bitterly resented by the freethinkers in the army. Id. p. 281. [↑]
[279] See Jules Barni’s Napoléon Ier. ed. 1870, p. 83, as to the amazing Catechism imposed by Napoleon on France in 1811. For the history of its preparation and imposition see De Labone, Paris sous Napoléon: La Religion, 1907, p. 100 sq. [↑]
[280] As to the Napoleonic censorship of literature, cp. Madame de Staël, Considérations sur la révolution française, ptie. iv, ch. 16; Dix Années d’Exil, préf.; Welschinger, La Censure sous le premier Empire, 1882. [↑]
[281] Las Cases, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, 19 août, 1816. [↑]