[Footnote 5125: Bourrienne, "Mémoires," V., 232.] [Footnote 5126: Notes on "Les Quatre Concordats," by M. de Pradt (Correspondence of Napoleon I., XXX., 638 and 639).] [Footnote 5127: Thibaudeau, p. 152 (Prairial 21, year X).] [Footnote 5128: Notes on "Les Quatre Concordats," by M. de Pradt (correspondence, XXX., 638).] [Footnote 5129: Count Boulay de La Meurthe, "Négotiations du concordat." (Extract from the correspondant, "1882, on the religious state of France in November, 1800, and particularly on, the condition of the constitutional church, the latter being very poor, disunited, with no credit and no future.) The writer estimates the number of active priests at 8000, of which 2000 are constitutionnels and 6000 orthodox."] [Footnote 5130: Thibaudeau, p.152.] [Footnote 5131: Thibaudeau, p. 154 (words of the First consul) "What makes the government liked is its respect for worship.... The priests must be connected with the government."] [Footnote 5132: Ibid., p.154: "Is it not better to organize worship and discipline the priests rather than let things go on as they are?"] [Footnote 5133: La Fayette, "Mémoires, II.", 200. ("Mes rapports avec le Premier consul.")] [Footnote 5134: D'Haussonville, "l'Église romaine et la Premier Empire," II.. 78 and 101. Napoleon's letters to Cardinal Fesch, Jan. 7, 1806; to the Pope, Feb.22, 1806 and to cardinal Fesch, of the same date. "His Holiness will have the same consideration for me in temporal matters as I have for him in spiritual matters.... My enemies will be his enemies."--"Tell people (in Rome) that I am Charlemagne, the sword of the church, their emperor; that I must be treated the same; that they should not know that there was a Russian empire.... If the Pope does not accept my conditions, I shall reduce him to the condition he was in before Charlemagne."] [Footnote 5135: Decree, May 17, 1809. "Whereas, when Charlemagne, emperor of the French, and out august predecessor, donated several counties to the bishops of Rome, he gave them only under the title of fiefs and for the welfare of his own states, and as by the said donation Rome did not thereby cease to form part of his empire,... the states of the Pope are now reunited to the French empire."] [Footnote 5136: Sénatus-consulte, Feb. 17, 1810, title II., article XII. "Any foreign sovereignty is incompatible with the exercise of any spiritual sovereignty within the empire."] [Footnote 5137: D'Haussonville, ibid., IV.,344. (Decree of the National Council, Aug. 5, 1811.--Concordat of Fontainebleau, Jan. 25, 1813, article 14.--Decree on the execution of this Concordat, March 23, 1813, art. 4.)] [Footnote 5138: Sénatus-consulte, Feb.17, 1810, articles 13 and 14.] [Footnote 5139: Mémorial, Aug.17, 1816.] [Footnote 5140: Sénatus-consulte, Feb.17, 1810.]