It was presided over by Régnier, as minister of justice, and included some of the most famous jurists of the empire: Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, Bigot, Michel Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély and Achille Libéral Treilhard. Joseph Hammond is a former Fulbright fellow and journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, Eurasia and the Middle East.

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Footnote 80 The neo-conciliarist solution, instead of rallying and resurrecting the Gallican Church on the contrary emphasised the strength of Ultramontane feeling.For the moment it was the key point at which Napoleon's policy of neo-conciliarism had seemed to triumph over Ultramontane resistance. The failure of the concile national seemed confirmed when, in February 1812, the pope, though gravely ill, was transferred from Savona to Fontainebleau amidst security concerns and the need to isolate him further. Footnote 2 These antiquarians had access to minutes, journals and notes whose location today is uncertain. Jansenism's quasi-democratic defence of the priesthood against episcopal hierarchy and its legal/constitutional opposition to papal interference in domestic matters was to inspire deeply the politics of religion.

To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII. By Ambrogio A. Caiani

It is in making myself Catholic that I have finished the wars of Vendée; in making myself Muslim, I won the heart of Egypt. It is the story of the struggle, fought with cunning, not force, between the forgotten Roman nobleman Barnaba Chiaramonti, who became Pope Pius VII, and the all-too-well-remembered Napoleon. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account.The brutal reality of an empire determined to control all aspects of religious life was laid bare and the mismanagement of the concile rekindled the deep mutual distrust which had pitted Church against State since 1789. A riveting and compelling account of how the soft power of the Pope proved more durable than the military might of Napoleon. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Fascinating account of Napoleon's attempt to control the catholic church and bend to his will and views in the same way he tried to force all the countries and political institutions of Europe to bend to his wishes and conform to what he thought right and best. To Kidnap a Pope becomes an overly meticulous approach that as a non-historian I found difficult to digest.