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| | The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of August 11, 1800 |
 | | In order to inherit the large fortune of Ercole Consalvi of Rome, the cardinal's grandfather, Gregorio Brunacci, took the name and arms of the former as he had required. |
 | | With the excuse of the assassination of General Duphot on December 28, 1797, in Rome, the French occupied the city on February 10, 1798, and deprived Pope Pius VI of his temporal sovereignty, and proclaimed a Roman republic. |
 | | Consalvi was arrested, imprisoned in the Castle S. Angelo, and sent to Civitavecchia en route to Cayenne, French Guiana, but he was returned to S. Angelo, and sent to Terracina. |
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