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June 17, 2002

Concordat of 1801, Vatican City, 1991

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

"The Concordat of 1801 between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon Bonaparte established a precedent-setting relationship between the church and the modern state, in this case France. It would result in the surrender of most papal lands by 1870."

—From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991