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Pius VII seems to have been a gentle and very longsuffering man. Will Durant, in his book The Age of Napoleon, writes:

"Napoleon himself, between abdications, admitted his misjudgment of Pius VII. 'I always believed the Pope to be a man of very weak character. . . . I treated him harshly. I was wrong. I was blind.' Pius, on the other hand, had never underestimated Napoleon, had in many ways admired him, and showed a certain tenderness for him when his former jailor became a prisoner in turn. When Napoleon's mother complained to the Pope that the English were mistreating her son on St. Helena, Pius begged Cardinal Consalvi to intercede for his fallen foe."​

 

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