[71] Ibid., IV.,p.133. (Letter by Napoleon, Sep. 2, 1809, omitted in
the "Correspondence.")
[72] Concordat, articles 4, 5, 16.
[73] Articles Organiques, I., pp. 2, 6.
[74] Code p?nal, decree of Feb. 16-20, 1810, article 207.
[75] Napoleon's own expressions: "I may regard myself as the head of
the Catholic ministry, since the Pope has crowned me." (Pelet de la
Loz?re, p. 210, July 17, 1806.) - Note the word crowned (sacr?).
Napoleon, as well as former kings, considers himself as clothed with
ecclesiastical dignity.
[76] On the sense and bearing of Gallican maxims cf. the whole of the
answer by Portalis to Cardinal Caprara. (?mile Ollivier, "Nouveau
manuel de droit eccl?siastique," p.150.)
[77] Decree of Feb.25, 1810. (The edict of Louis XIV. is attached to
it.) Prohibition to teach or write "anything opposed to the doctrine
contained" in the declaration of the French clergy. Every professor of
theology must sign and submit to teaching the doctrine therein set
forth." - In establishments where there are several professors "one of
them will be annually directed to teach the said doctrine.
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