Brune arrived quite late. By then, Georgiana had finished "consulting" them about Catholic Mass.
As a Protestant, it was perfectly normal for her not to know. Besides, it would give them the impression that she wanted to adapt to local customs.
Napoleon's aim was to have Sieyès deal with the Church people. He had said that Sieyès had no interest in theology; Sieyès preferred Enlightenment literature, and his favorite writer, John Locke, was British.
Brune's assignment was to typeset, print, and duplicate the thousands of tons of books in the Church library, then return the originals.
This was almost unrelated to the main task. Fortunately, by the time Brune arrived, Sieyès and Caprara had already taken a liking to her. In short, this task would still mainly depend on her.
She had once told Bonaparte that when the Library of Alexandria had been occupied by the Arabs, they had used gold to hire scholars to translate. For every book translated, the translator received gold equal to the book's weight.
The Corsican was not so generous. He still had a petty bourgeois attitude toward managing money. The typesetters' daily wages remained the same as when they had worked for the newspapers, but Georgiana would provide three meals a day. This job could give those who had lost their work when the newspapers were shut down enough to support their families.
Grand Marshal Duroc came to ask whether she needed anything. Duroc was even more British than she was, despite her being British herself—cold and solemn, he felt very much like an English butler.
Even clergymen softened their manner before a young woman. In any case, Napoleon's accommodating attitude must have pleased Caprara and Sieyès. When they left before curfew, the two departed together.
As for whether Napoleoni could achieve his goal,