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The Age of Napoleon Podcast
Episode 68: The Eagle and the Owls
May 26, 2020
Napoleon's efforts to reconcile with counter-revolutionaries and address religious conflict in France, emigres' mistaken beliefs about his intentions, Napoleon's response to the restoration proposition and the church, the conflict between the revolutionaries and the Vatican, the captivity and controversial funeral of Pope Pius VI.
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- Napoleon implemented conservative social policies to unite France, offering olive branches to the political right and emphasizing peace and reconciliation.
- Napoleon recognized the importance of resolving the conflict with the Catholic Church, implementing measures such as reopening religious institutions and granting freedom to practice religion to foster reconciliation and create conditions for a settlement with the Vatican.
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Napoleon's efforts to reconcile conservatives and royalists
Napoleon aimed to unite France by offering olive branches to the political right, including restoring ceremonial trappings of monarchy and implementing conservative social policies in the new civil code. He sought to convince conservatives that his regime represented a chance for peace and that they had a place in the new France. Napoleon's measures included releasing thousands of royalists from Republican jails and offering amnesty to armed royalist partisans (known as Chuan) in exchange for loyalty to the Republican government.
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