Napoleon often said, recalled his minister of the interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, ‘that when he came to take charge of the government, the French Revolution had not come to an end’.2 It is true that within weeks of taking power he was declaring that it had, but it took almost three years to turn wishful thinking into a reality, celebrated in 1802 with the Peace of Amiens and a concordat with the Catholic Church. This book aims to analyse how it was done.
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