Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Organic Articles were a set of laws containing 77 articles for Catholicism and 44 for Protestantism that Napoleon Bonaparte published to insert state control measures into the religious settlement. This document was presented simultaneously with the Concordat of 1801 without the Pope's knowledge.
Title I required government authorization for any papal document while Title II mandated annual presentation of seminary rules and fixed the number of ordained ministers yearly. The state also controlled parish appointments, enforced black dress codes for clergy, banned public processions in mixed-creed towns, and established the Imperial Catechism as the only permitted teaching.
Napoleon Bonaparte applied similar regulations to Protestant communities to prevent Catholic domination and ensure no single faith held overwhelming power over public life. These parallel articles allowed Calvinist congregations to organize under clerical leaders appointed by wealthy taxpayers while requiring state approval for councils and new parishes.
Pope Pius VII claimed he had no knowledge of Napoleon Bonaparte's attachment at the time of the agreement but his protest proved futile as Napoleon published the Articles regardless of papal disapproval. This action humiliated and defeated the Pope politically while the state maintained its authority despite the laws eventually becoming dead letters due to obscurities.
France issued a law on the 1st of January 1905 declaring separation of church and state which abolished both the Organic Articles and the Concordat of 1801 across most of the country. However, these historical articles remain in power within the departments of Alsace and Moselle because those regions were not part of France during the original 1905 enactment.