Yes, it was an olive branch with the Catholic Church that cost Napoleon very little and gained him much good will.
It remained nominally Catholic and in 1801 Napoleon signed a Concordat with the Pope.
The Concordat of 1801 ended the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, established Catholicism as the majority church of France, restored its civil status and returned some control of the Church to the Pope. It did not return church property siezed during the Revolution.
The Concordat Was A Failure
Through the Concordat of 1801: the Concordat of 1801 is a reflection of an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restored some of its civil status. While the Concordat restored some ties to the papacy, it was largely in favor of the state; the balance of church-state relations had tilted firmly in Napoleon Bonaparte's favour. As a part of the Concordat, he presented another set of laws called the Organic Articles.
By way of the Concordat of 1801 which cost him nothing and gained him much favor with the French majority.
He mandated it as a part of the Constitution.
It replaced the Directory
It replaced the Directory
It replaced the Directory
In the 1801 Concordat he ended the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, returned to the Gregorian Calendar and restored Sunday as a festival.
It replaced the Directory
the establishment of the directory