They sell at 26 thousand 360 euros Napoleon for the arrest of Pope Pius VII

A message from Napoleon Who pretended to refuse to arrest Pope Pius VIIHe commanded, was sold for 26,360 euros ($ 30,000) At a auction on Sunday in Fontainebleau, near ParisDeclared Osanat auction house.

The letter, on July 23, 1809 and with the buttons, It was signed by “Napoli”, a small potential Napoleon.

value The message was estimated between 12,000 and 15,000 eurosJean -Christophe Chattan, director of the Ministry of Empire at Dar Al -Mazaya, told AFP.

Pio VII’s arrest “was one of the events that characterized the era of Napoleon politically and religiously. Napoleon knew that this message would be circulated and that he was heading to all authorities,” says the specialist.

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A message addressed to Archicankyer Jean-Jacques-Régis

He added that the message is a real “political maneuver”, and he went to Arsharir Jean -Jacques Regis Campasiris.

Without orders and against my will, the Pope was taken from Rome; It was again without orders and against my will brought to France. But I am not aware of this up to ten or ten days after its implementation. Once he knows that the Pope stops somewhere, and that my intentions can be known in time (such) and implementation, I will see what measures I should take … “Napoleon wrote.

Chataignier, a specialist, explains that the emperor was looking for him “Show your authority without being unauthorized.”. He adds: “He should not be seen as the person who stopped the Pope, is historical and excessive implementation.”

Before PíO VII refused to join the continental blockade policy, Napoleon launched a series of “strengths”.

The Emperor seized the author’s authority when he occupied part of the papal states, especially ports, his forces to Rome on February 2, 1808 and expel foreign Cardro in March.

It was the Pope He was finally arrested Vatican At the end of July 1809, He was arrested in the French city of Greenoppe and sent it to Italy on August 1, to be arrested in Savona and then in Fonteneblo at the request of Napoleon.

In this way, the Emperor sought to emphasize his control over the Catholic religion, which had been coordinated since his crowning in Notre Dame, where he was crowned himself, a task usually dedicated to sovereign chapters, “says the specialist.

Napoleon auctions achieved some success, after more than two centuries of death “The French Emperor”Who died in exile in 1821, in 51, after controlling Europe.

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