February 10, he effected an entrance into the self styled eternal city, and, on the 15th of the same month, proclaimed the establishment of the Roman republic.

The pope, after this deprivation of his authority, was conveyed to France as a prisoner, and died at Valence, Aug.

29, 1799.
This would have been the end of the papacy, had this overthrow been made permanent.

The wound would have proved fatal had it not been healed.
But, though the wound was healed, the scar, so to speak, has ever since remained.

A new pope was elected in 1800, and the papacy was restored, but only to a partial possession of its former privileges.
Let the reader look carefully at this event.