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| | Pope Pius VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Pius VII, O.S.B., born Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti (August 14, 1740 – August 20, 1823), was Pope from March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823. |
 | | He was crowned Pius VII on March 21, 1800 in a rather unusual coronation, wearing a papier-mâché papal tiara. |
 | | Whatever hopes Pius may have had with Napoleon, the Papal States were eventually taken by the French around 1808, and when Napoleon subsequently was excommunicated, he had Pius arrested. |
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