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Article: Ercole Consalvi
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Ercole Consalvi , 1757-1824, Italian cardinal and papal diplomat. In his first term (1800-1806) as secretary of state for Pope Pius VII he negotiated the
Concordat of 1801
with Napoleon Bonaparte (later Emperor Napoleon I). Despite Consalvi's astute diplomacy, Napoleon annexed the papal states in 1809. ...
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... ... were raging through Europe, the emperor Napoleon threatened Catholic officials, "I will destroy your church!" Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, a leading papal statesman, retorted, "He will never succeed. We have not managed to do it ourselves." The scandal ...
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