Napoleon had come into sharp collision with…

Napoleon had come into sharp collision with the Pope on various matters both political and religious in the course of the years 1806 and 1807.

Napoleon is inexorable in his demands, and Pius VII refuses to give way where the discipline and vital interests of the church seem to be threatened.

Relations between the Church and Napoleon deteriorate; General Miollis occupies Rome with a division on February 3, 1808.