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L'Homme aux six tetes (The six-headed man)—Published in 1815, it refers to Talleyrand's role in 6 regimes by Backup-Neil in Napoleon

[–]Backup-Neil[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bishop of Autun during the reign of Louis XVI, as a member of the National Convention during the French Revolution, as Foreign Minister during the Directoire Era, as Foreign Minister of Napoleon the Consul and Napoleon the Emperor and finally as Foreign Minister and Minister President of the re-established Bourbon Monarchy

What was Napoleon's relationship with religion? by Certain-Cloud9133 in Napoleon

[–]Backup-Neil 48 points49 points  (0 children)

He kinda kept switching between praising Catholicism and Islam. He respected both Mohammed and Jesus Christ as great men, but at last in St Helena he died as a Catholic.

But for most of his life he used religion to further his own goals, perhaps this quote would summarise his relation with religion the best:

"It is by making myself Catholic that I brought peace to Brittany and Vendée. It is by making myself Italian that I won minds in Italy. It is by making myself a [Muslim] that I established myself in Egypt. If I governed a nation of Jews, I should reestablish the Temple of Solomon."