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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 26713303, member: 135271&quot;]Very nice coin!</p><p>Pius VII seems to have been a gentle and very longsuffering man. Will Durant, in his book <i>The Age of Napoleon</i>, writes:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>&quot;Napoleon himself, between abdications, admitted his misjudgment of Pius VII. &#039;I always believed the Pope to be a man of very weak character. . . . I treated him harshly. I was wrong. I was blind.&#039; 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&#039;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.&quot;</i></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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