Bibles in Hotel Rooms

[A Theist]

Don't you mean that Napoleon made a deal with the church? That would be more accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordat_of_1801

The main terms of the Concordat of 1801 between France and Pope Pius VII included:

* A declaration that "Catholicism was the religion of the great majority of the French" but not the official state religion, thus maintaining religious freedom, in particular with respect to Protestants
* The Papacy had the right to depose bishops, but this made little difference, because the French government still nominated them.
* The State would pay clerical salaries and the clergy swore an oath of allegiance to the State.
* The Church gave up all its claims to Church lands that were confiscated after 1790.
* The Sabbath was reestablished as a "festival", effective Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802. The rest of the French Republican Calendar, which had been abolished, was not replaced by the traditional Gregorian Calendar until 1 January 1806.

Try not to believe too much English propaganda about Napoleon. He was quite a guy.

Don't you mean that Napoleon made a deal with the church? That would be more accurate.

...and?

Try not to believe too much English propaganda about Napoleon. He was quite a guy.

I agree. Napoleon is one of the historical figures I admire.