Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, (Vol. 04 / 20) / faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française

The author recounts how the Premier Consul's elevation to lifelong authority drew cautious congratulations from European courts and triggered a range of diplomatic moves: commercial overtures from Britain, renewed dealings with Spain and the papacy, interventions in Italian questions, and a swift settlement with Algerian authorities. He examines unrest in Switzerland and the fragile new constitution there, then details the secularization and redistribution of German ecclesiastical territories, the competing Austrian and Prussian claims, Franco‑Prussian mediation supported by Russia, and the negotiated diet settlement that reorganized German states and compensated dispossessed rulers.