The year 1848 was not the first time France had abolished slavery. It had done so in 1792, but slavery was re-established in 1802 after Napoleon came to power. With the end of the Napoleonic wars, France abolished the slave trade in 1818, but only with the greatest reluctance and at the insistence of a triumphant Britain. There was little thought of abolishing slavery itself. Furthermore it was not just the monarchy that was hostile to abolition. The Catholic Church, unlike its British Protestant counterparts, had little interest in the movement. A generation of revolution left the Church hostile to the men and ideas of the Revolution, particularly to those like Abbé Grégoire who had supported the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. There were influential people in Restoration France who favored abolition, but they organized no subscriptions and held no meetings.