Editing Napoleon (section)

===Religious emancipation===
{{further|Napoleon and the Jews|Napoleon and Protestants}}
In February 1795, the National Convention proclaimed religious equality for France's [[Protestantism|Protestant]] churches and other religions. In April 1802, Napoleon published laws increasing state control of [[Reformed Christianity|Calvinist]] congregations and [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] directories, with their pastors to be paid by the state.{{sfnp|Ellis|1997a|pp=242, 245}} With Napoleon's military victories, formal religious equality and civil rights for religious minorities spread to the conquered territories and [[satellite state]]s, although their implementation varied with the local authorities.<ref name="McLynn-1997a">{{harvp|McLynn|1997|pages=435–36}}</ref>

[[Jews]] in France had been granted full civil rights in September 1791 and religious equality in 1795. The revolutionary and Napoleonic regimes abolished Jewish ghettoes in the territories they conquered.{{sfnp|Palmer|1984|pp=160-61}} Napoleon wished to assimilate Jews into French society and convened an assembly of Jewish notables in 1806 to that end. In 1807, he summoned a [[Sanhedrin]] to adapt the [[law of Moses]] to those of the empire. An imperial decree of March 1808 organized Jewish worship into consistories, limited usury and encouraged Jews to adopt a family name, intermarriage, and civil marriage and divorce.{{sfnp|Conner|2004|pp=38-40}}{{sfnp|Palmer|1984|pp=160-61}} Jews, however, were still subject to discrimination in many parts of the empire and satellite states.<ref name="McLynn-1997a" />