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Pius VI

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Pius VI
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(Biographies / Pius VI (1717-1799) M, Italian, RELIGION: clergyman, RELIGION: pope) original name Giovanni Angelico Braschi. 1717-99, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1775-99). He opposed French attempts to limit papal authority and denounced (1791) the French Revolution: he died a prisoner of the French in the Revolutionary Wars
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Noun1.Pius VI - Italian pope from 1775 to 1799 who served during the French Revolution; Napoleon attacked the Papal States and in 1797 Pius VI was taken to France where he died (1717-1799)
Giannangelo Braschi, Giovanni Angelo Braschi


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