He would have lived alongside of me.

Paris would have become the capital of Christendom, and I would have governed the religious world the same as the political world....

I would have had my religious as well as legislative sessions; my councils would have represented Christianity; the Popes would have been merely their presidents.

I would have opened and closed these assemblies, sanctioned and published their decrees, as was done by Constantine and Charlemagne." In 1809, the restoration of the great Carlovingian and Roman edifice had begun; its physical foundations were laid.

By virtue of a decree,[5140] "the expenses of the Sacred College and of the Propaganda were declared imperial." The Pope, like the new dukes and marshals, was endowed with a landed income on "property in different parts of the empire, two millions of rural revenue free of all taxation.
"Necessarily" the Pope must have two palaces, one at Paris and the other at Rome.