Joseph Bonaparte. Abbott John Stevens Cabot

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Quelques Mot sur Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte; Œuvres de Napoleon III., tome ii. p. 452.

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Napoleon's younger brother, father of Napoleon III.

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Œuvres de Napoleon III., tome deuxième, p. 451.

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9th Thermidor, 28th of July, 1794. This was the date of the overthrow of Robespierre, and of the termination of the Reign of Terror. The enormous atrocities perpetrated under the name of the Republic had excited general distrust of republican institutions.

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13th Vendemiaire, 5th of October, 1795, when Napoleon quelled the insurgent sections.

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18th Fructidor, 4th of September, 1797. On this day the majority of the French Directory overthrew the minority, who were in favor of monarchical institutions. Sixty-three Deputies were banished for conspiring to introduce monarchy. Both councils renewed their oath of hatred against royalty.

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18th Brumaire, Nov. 9th, 1799.

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"I hold it for certain that in 1802 the Concordat was, on the part of Napoleon, an act of superior intelligence, much more than of a despotic spirit, and for the Christian religion in France an event as salutary as it was necessary. After the anarchy and the revolutionary orgies, the solemn recognition of Christianity by the State could alone give satisfaction to public sentiment, and assure to the Christian influence the dignity and the stability which it was needful that it should recover." – Meditations sur l'état Actuel de la Religion Chrétienne, par M. Guizot, p. 5.

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This daughter subsequently married her cousin, the brother of the Emperor Napoleon III., the second son of Louis Bonaparte. He died at an early age, in a campaign for the liberation of Italy.

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Œuvres de Napoleon III. tome ii. p. 456.

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