aug 7, 1801 - Napoleon and Religion

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He made peace with the Roman Catholic Church and in 1801 made an agreement with the pope. This agreement was the Concordat, which stated that the French would retain church lands sized during the revolution, as long as they:
payed clerics' salaries
recognized Roman Catholic Christianity as Frances preferred faith
extended freedom of religion to protestants and Jews

This won him support from revolutionaries

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