our carriages, instead of taking the road to Paris, his Majesty gave orders to proceed to Fontainebleau.  The Empress and the ladies who accompanied her had nothing except their hunting costumes, and the Emperor was much diverted by the tribulations their vanity underwent in being unexpectedly engaged in a campaign without toilet equipments.  Before leaving Paris the Emperor had given orders that there should be sent in all haste to Fontainebleau all that the “Empress could need; but her ladies found themselves totally unprovided for, and it was very amusing to see them immediately on their arrival expedite express after express for objects of prime necessity which they ordered should be sent posthaste.  Nevertheless, it was soon evident that the hunting-party and breakfast at Grosbois had been simply a pretext, and that the Emperor’s object had been to put an end to the differences which had for some time existed between his Holiness and his Majesty.  Everything having been settled and prearranged, the Emperor and the Pope signed on the 25th an agreement under the name of Concordat, of which this is the purport: 

“His Majesty, the Emperor and King, and his Holiness, wishing to settle the differences which had arisen between them, and provide for difficulties which have unexpectedly arisen in regard to various affairs of the church, have agreed on the following articles as forming a basis for a definite arrangement: 

   Art. 1.  His Holiness will exercise the pontificate in France, and
   in the Kingdom of Italy, in the same manner and under the same
   regulations as his predecessors.

2.  The ambassadors, ministers, and charges d’affaires to the Holy Father, and the ambassadors, ministers, and charges d’affaires from him to foreign powers, will enjoy the immunities and privileges of members of the diplomatic corps.

3.  The domains possessed by the Holy Father, and which have not been alienated, shall be exempt from all kinds of impost; they shall be administered by his agents or representatives.  Those which have been alienated shall be replaced to the value of two million francs of revenue.

4.  During the six months which usually follow the notification of appointments made by the Emperor to the archbishoprics and bishoprics of the Empire and the Kingdom of Italy the Pope shall perform the canonical institution in conformity with the Concordat, and by virtue of the present agreement; previous information concerning which shall be given by the archbishop.  If six months shall expire without the Pope having performed this institution, the archbishop, and in his absence, where his duties are concerned, the senior bishop of the province, shall proceed to the institution of the aforementioned bishop, to the end that a see shall never be vacant more than one year.

   5.  The Pope shall appoint in France and in the Kingdom of Italy to
   ten bishoprics, which shall later be designated by mutual agreement.