[Footnote 51112: D'Haussonville, IV.,366 (last phrase of the text): "A deputation of six bishops will go and beg His Holiness to confirm this decree."] [Footnote 51113: To an ordinary reader, even Catholic, if not versed!in canon law, Napoleon's exactions seem mediocre and even acceptable; they reduce themselves down to fixing a delay and seeming to add to the competency of councils and the authority of bishops. (D'Haussonville, IV.,366, session of the council, Aug. 5, 1811, propositions adopted and decree. Cf. the Concordat of Fontainebleau, Jan. 25, 1813, article 4.)] [Footnote 51114: Comte D'Haussonville, IV.,121 and following pages. (Letters of the prefect, M. de Chabrol, letters of Napoleon not inserted in the "Correspondence," narration of Dr. Claraz.) 6000 francs, a present to the bishop of Savona, 12,000 francs salary to Dr. Porta, the Pope's physician. "Dr. Porta," writes the prefect, "seems disposed to serve us indirectly with all his power.... Efforts are made to affect the Pope either by all who approach him or by all the means in our power."] [Footnote 51115: Ibid. (Letters of M. de Chabrol, May 14 and 30, 1811.) "The Pope has fallen into a state of stupor.... The physician fears a case of hypochondria;... his health and reason are affected." Then, in a few days: "The state of mental alienation has passed."] [Footnote 51116: Mémorial (Aug.17, 1816).] [Footnote 51117: D'Haussonville, V., 244. Later, the Pope keeps silent about his interviews with Napoleon. "He simply lets it be understood that the emperor spoke to him haughtily and contemptuously, even treating him as an ignoramus in ecclesiastical matters."--Napoleon met him with open arms and embraced him, calling him his father. (Thiers, XV., 295.)--It is probable that the best literary portrayal of these tête-à-tête conversations is the imaginary scene in "Grandeurs et Servitudes Militaires," by Alfred de Vigny.] [Footnote 51118: Comte Chaptal, "Notes": "No, in the course of sixteen years of a stormy government, Bonaparte never met with so much resistance and never suffered so many disappointments as were caused by his quarrel with the Pope. There is no event in his life which more alienated the people as his proceedings and conduct towards the Pope."] [Footnote 51119: Ultramontanism; a set of doctrines establishing the pope's absolute authority.] CHAPTER II. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. I. The Catholic System. The effects of the system.--Completion of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.--Omnipotence of the Pope in the Church. --Influence of the French Concordat and other precedents from 1801 to 1870.--Why the clergy becomes ultramontane.--The dogma of Infallibility.