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AP Success - AP European History: Concordat of 1801

The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte's government and Pope Pius VII that re-established the Catholic Church in France after the French Revolution.

Source 1

Article 1
The Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion will be freely exercised in France. Its worship will be public, and in conformity with such police regulations as the Government shall consider necessary to public peace.

Article 2
The Holy See, in cooperation with the government, will effect a new circumscription of the French dioceses.

Article 3
His Holiness will proclaim to the incumbents of the French bishoprics that for the benefit of peace and unity he confidently expects from them every kind of sacrifice, even that of their sees.
After this exhortation, if they should refuse this sacrifice required for the welfare of the Church, (a refusal, however, which His Holiness is not expecting), provision will be made for the government of the newly circumscribed dioceses by the new incumbents as follows:

Concordat of 1801

Question 1

Short answer

Identify one reform expressed in the excerpt.

Question 2

Short answer

Describe Napoleon Bonaparte's likely purpose in approving the Concordat of 1801.

Question 3

Short answer

Explain one way the Concordat of 1801 continued to influence France after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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