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The signing of the Concordat — The agreement between Bonaparte and Pius VII, 1801
Signed with Pope Pius VII, the Concordat closed the Revolution’s religious wound: Catholicism acknowledged as “the religion of the great majority of the French”, bishops named by the First Consul. (Editorial synthesis)
The signing of the Concordat took place on 15 July 1801. (source: Larousse)
The signing of the Concordat took place in Paris. (source: Fondation Napoléon)
The signing of the Concordat ended in the reconciliation of revolutionary France and the Church and the recognition of the consular government. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
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