Napoleon, the Pope, and Italy

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 11.

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Napoleon, the Pope, and Italy

—A telegram from Paris, in the Tribune of Monday, states that the relations existing between the Emperor Napoleon and the Pope have suddenly assumed a much cooler aspect, and the correspondence between Paris and Rome is to-day regarded as of a far less cordial character on the part of the Emperor than what it was even a week ago. It is said that the cause of this unlooked-for change in the imperial policy is to be found in the fact that His Majesty has become convinced of the existence of Bourbon intrigues against his throne, and that these intrigues are for the most part hatched in Rome, and radiate from the Eternal City, to the great encouragement of the Legitimist party in France and other countries of Europe. As a royal set-off to this state of affairs, and it may be to convince the Pope and his prominent ally, the ex-king of Naples, of his power, Napoleon has renewed with King Victor Emanuel his friendly tone and assurance toward united Italy, and just forwarded a special order to his representative, the French minister in Florence, to that effect, and also enjoining him to shape his diplomacy with that object.