Clash of the titans: the turbulent relationship between Napoleon and Pius VII

Napoleon is annointed by Pius VII before he is crowned Emperor in Notre-Dame in 1804
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The struggle between Napoleon and Pius VII was the first of several “culture wars” between secular modernity and traditional Catholicism that scarred the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and Latin America.

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