Note 279 — Chapter XVII · FRENCH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

See Jules Barni’s Napoléon Ier. ed. 1870, p. 83, as to the amazing Catechism imposed by Napoleon on France in 1811. For the history of its preparation and imposition see De Labone, Paris sous Napoléon: La Religion, 1907, p. 100 sq. ↑