Histoire Civile, Politique Et Religieuse De Pie VI,, Ecrite Sur Des Memoires Authentiques Par un Francais catholique romain. [Pope Pius VI, carried to France by Napoleon's army]

by [Barruel (Aug.) Abbe]

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Book desription: Paris, , 1801-1802. Orig. tan wrprs., backed by contemp. newspaper. Text extremely clean on heavy grained paper. Untrimmed in orig. wrprs. as issued, paper bdg. labels , 1st vol. w/ handwritten MS paper label also. some paper msg. from spines, 3rd vol. w/ worming through back cover into about 3 leaves,affec. some words. Gd. copy overall amazingly in its orig. paper bindings. over 200 years old. 24mo. 3 volumes. French text, small print. Each measure approx. 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. First vol. w/f frontice copperplate of Pius VI. Impt. contemp. biography of Pope Pius VI (1717-1799) who had long controversies w/ Emperor Joseph II and the King of Naples, came to oppose Napoleon's aggression toward Italy, deprived of parts of papal dominions by the French in 1791, 1796 & 1798, carried a prisoner to Valence, France by the French army in 1798 where he died. The set w/ details of the Pope's reign, involvement in European diplomacy, the various French invasions,seizing of the Pope's dominions, plus the final carrying away of the Pope, his brutal treatment, his death & all the funeral orations, comprising a large section of last volume.

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