There was one striking detail in portraits of the Sun King, Louis XIV: because of his height, he had to wear high heels, and their heels were painted red. Until the French Revolution, red heels had been a privilege of the nobility of France. Thus, besides "Sans-culottes," "flatfoot" (pied plat) was also a term for people of humble birth.
Even after stockings disappeared and tall boots came into fashion, some still wanted to paint their heels red. Religion linked the idea of equality to Heaven, allowing the poor to kill the rich. Yet when the government sentenced criminals to death, priests absolved them and sent them to Heaven. The same act, applied to one person, led to the guillotine; applied to another, it brought forgiveness. In Bonaparte's words, the public exercise of these two powers ran in completely opposite directions. Since they could collide, conflict between them was inevitable. Unless clear boundaries were drawn in advance, unless it was explicitly stated what belonged to secular authority, there was no way to stop the Church from encroaching upon the state. In the end, religion wanted to possess everything.
The First Consul wanted neither a dominant religion nor a new religion. In other words, he supported establishing the Ministry of Magic to regulate wizards' conduct and prevent them from spreading "superstition" everywhere.
That was also why he forcibly shut down the Theophilanthropic Society. Georgiana recalled what Grindelwald had done in France. He too had spread an idea—that wizards were righteous people preventing Muggles from destroying the world, no longer a disorderly rabble protesting solely for their own interests.
She considered how to stop the "future" Grindelwald from exploiting such a loophole, but the answer she reached was that there was no solution. Just as, one day, a Voldemort would inevitably be born