the administrative lines;
he will no longer enjoy the right of refusing canonical investiture to
bishops appointed by the emperor,[5137] "he will, on his coronation,
swear not to take any measures against the four propositions of the
Gallican Church,"[5138] he will become a grand functionary, a sort of
arch-chancellor like Cambaceres and Lebrun, the arch chancellor of the
Catholic cult.--Undoubtedly, he resists and is obstinate, but he is not
immortal, and if he does not yield, his successor will: it suffices to
choose one that is manageable, and to this end things work in the next
conclave.

"With my influence and our forces in Italy," Napoleon says
afterwards,[5139] "I did not despair, sooner or later, by one means
or another, of obtaining for myself the control of the Pope, and,
thenceforward, what an influence, what a lever on the opinion of the
rest of the world!"

"Had I returned victorious from Moscow, I intended to exalt the Pope
beyond measure, to surround him with pomp and deference. I would have
brought him to no longer regretting his temporality; I would have made
him an idol. He would have lived alongside of me. Paris would have
become the capital of Christendom, and I would have governed the
religious world the same as the political world.... I would have had
my religious as well as legislative sessions; my councils would have
represented Christianity; the Popes would have been merely their
presidents. I would have opened and closed these assemblies,
sanctioned and published their decrees, as was done by Constantine and
Charlemagne." In 1809, the restoration of the great Carlovingian and
Roman edifice had begun; its physical foundations were laid. By virtue
of a decree,[5140] "the expenses of the Sacred College and of the
Propaganda were declared imperial." The Pope, like the new dukes and
marshals, was endowed with a landed income on "property in different
parts of the empire, two millions of rural revenue free of all taxation.
"Necessarily" the Pope must have two palaces, one at Paris and the other
at Rome. He is already nearly fully installed in Paris, his person being
all that was lacking. On arriving from Fontainebleau, two hours off, he
would find everything belonging to his office; "the papers[5141] of the
missions and the archives of Rome were already there." "The Hotel Dieu
was entirely given up to the departments of the court of Rome. The
district around Notre Dame and the Ile Saint-Louis was