s 4, 5, 11, 14,
22, 26, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43.--Israelite cult, decree of
March 17, 1808, articles 4, 8, 9, 16, 23. Decree of execution, samedate,
articles 2 to 7.]

[Footnote 5149: Decree of March 17, 1808, articles 12, 21.]

[Footnote 5150: Articles Organiques (Protestant cults), 12 and 13.]

[Footnote 5151: Articles Organiques (Catholic cult), 24. Teachers
selected for the seminaries "will subscribe the declaration made by
the clergy of France in 1682; they will submit to teaching the doctrine
therein set forth."]

[Footnote 5152: "Dsicours, rapports, etc," by Portalis, p. 101.]

[Footnote 5153: Ibid, p. 378.]

[Footnote 5154: Abbe Sicard, "Les Dispensateurs des benefices
ecclesiastiques" (in the "Correspondant," Sep.10, 1889, p.883). A
benefice was then a sort of patrimony which the titulary, old or ill,
often handed over to one of his relatives. "A canonist of the eighteenth
century says that the resignation carried with it one third of the
income."]

[Footnote 5155: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier (Etienne-Dennis, duc), Librarie
Plon, Paris 1893. Vol. I. p. 415.: "The nomination of Cardinal Maury
as arch-bishop of Paris was published on the same day that I had been
appointed prefect of police. The new arch-bishop had made too much noise
in the past for him not to have become known to me. He was as happy with
his appointment as I was unhappy with mine. I met him in the chateau
Fontainebleau and I have ever since been haunted by the noisy expression
of his happiness. He constantly repeated this sentence: "The Emperor has
just satisfied the two greatest requirements of his capital. With a good
police and a good clergy he can always be sure of public order, since an
arch-bishop is also a prefect of the police."]

[Footnote 5156: Report of Simeon to the tribunat on presenting to it the
Concordat and Organic Articles, Germinal 17, year X.--Henceforth
"the ministers of all cults will be subject to the influence of the
government which appoints or confirms them, to which they are bound
by the most sacred promises, and which holds them in its dependence by
their salaries."]

[Footnote 5157: "Discours, rapports, etc.," by Portalis, p. 40.--Emile
Ollivier, "Nouveau manuel de droit ecclesiastique," P.193. (Reply by
Portalis to the protests of the Holy See, Sep. 22, 1803.) Before 1789
Portalis writes: "The spectacle presented by the monks was not very
edifying.. .. The legislature having decided that religious