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Excerpt from Talleyrand, Vol. 2 of 2
Talleyrand at first did not grasp the significance of the event. He requested Spain to contest the election of Pius VII. As illegal, so completely did he consider him the Pope of the coalition. But the reverse was the truth. Ranke places these very proceedings at Venice among the events which led to its break-up. Political motives alienated Austria from the Papacy; Spain under the Urquijo Ministry aimed at nothing less than the restoration of the old independence of the Spanish Church; Catholic Bavaria was counted a determined opponent of the ecclesiastical electoral princes and in South Germany the clergy and bishops were infected with Febronian Views. Under the pretext that the Pope is not free by reason of his dependence on France, complained Consalvi to Spina.
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