46 * Napoleon submitted a written constitution with universal male suffrage
Notables- appointed by govt. to public position. No power. Available for appointment to office. Could only reject or enact legislation. * Tribunate- discusses public polices but no enacting powers. * Conservative Senate- rights of appointment of notables to office * Council of State prepared significant legislation under presidency of the first consul * First consul- made all decisions and ran state. * Russian 199 withdrew from war with France * Italian theater, Bonaparte defeated Austrian by crossing alps at the battle of Marengo June 1800 * February 1801 Austrians singed Treaty of Luneville- confirming terms of Campo Formio * March 1802 Peace made with Britain * Constituent Assembly created a powerful and centralized administrative machine under direct orders of the minster of the interior to keep internal order.
-New government put down the guerrillas in the west.
-Laws and Taxes imposed on Brittany and Vendee
Peasants no longer terrorized by partisans * Picked consuls and only required for them to work for him and no fighting with each other.
-Second consul was Cambaceres a regicide of the Terror
-Third consul was Lebrun- was Maupeous colleague during Louis xv
-Fouche minister of police was a Hebraist and extreme terrorist in 1793 for fall of Robespierre.
-Talleyrand- minister of foreign affairs. Constitutional monarchy, before was a bishop * Christmas Eve 1800, nearly killed by a bomb or infernal machine- set by royalists Bonaparte believed it was Jacobins
The Settlement with Church; Other Reforms * Bonaparte was a rationalist, regarded religion as a convenience, advertised himself as Muslin in Egypt and a Catholic in France. * 1801 Signed a concordat with the Vatican- Stating Catholicism was the religion of the majority of the French people
-Galician church came to an end
-pope received the right to depose French bishop
-Publicity of catholic worship in the streets were allowed
-Church seminaries were permitted
-Pope recognized the Republic
-Galician agreed to raise no question over the former tithes and the former church lands
-After the church lost their tithes and land, they were promised of salaries from the state but Bonaparte assigned protestant ministers on the state payroll * Consulate turned to fields of law and administration- Consuls combined the best of the Revolution and of the Old Regime. State took on clearer form reverse of everything feudal * All