Table of Contents
List of Plates viii
Map of Pius's Travels ix
Introduction: A Sleepless Night in the Eternal City, 1809 1
1 God and Revolution: France in Turmoil, 1789-99 10
2 Electing the Pope in Venice, 1799-1800 39
3 Divisions Healed? The Concordat of 1801 61
4 Crowning Charlemagne: Napoleon's Coronation, 1802-05 99
5 A New Babylonian Captivity: The French Annexation of Rome, 1805-09 132
6 One Wedding and Thirteen Black Cardinals, 1809-10 162
7 The Empire of God: The National Council of 1811 192
8 The Last Concordat, 1812-13 223
9 Christianity Restored: The Papal Return to Rome and the Hundred Days, 1814-15 250
Conclusion: The Emperors Ghost 281
Appendix: The Four Gallican Articles of 1682 291
Endnotes 293
Further Reading 337
Acknowledgements 339
Index 343