Rome, avant-poste de la France en Orient. Les chrétiens orientaux dans la ville éternelle et la Congrégation de la Propagande pendant l’occupation napoléonienne (1808-1814)

Santus, Cesare
(2020) Annales historiques de la Révolution française — Vol. 401, n° 3, p. 135-157 (2020)

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(en) At the end of the eighteenth century, Rome was home to an extensive network of colleges, hospices, and places of welcome for Eastern Christians from the Ottoman Empire and its surroundings. The supervision of these pontifical institutions was entrusted to the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, responsible for Catholic missions in the world. This article explores how the arrival of the French in the Eternal City influenced the existence of clerics from the East, and determined the fate of their establishments. In the management of the bureaucratic structure of Propaganda, the Napoleonic administration found itself torn between immediate practical and economic needs, to be satisfied by the rigorous application of the norms on the confiscation of ecclesiastical goods, and long-term political and diplomatic ambitions, aimed at using the Catholic missionary network in the East as an instrument of imperial propaganda.
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Santus, C. (2020). Rome, avant-poste de la France en Orient. Les chrétiens orientaux dans la ville éternelle et la Congrégation de la Propagande pendant l’occupation napoléonienne (1808-1814). Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 401(3), 135-157. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/117299 (Original work published 2020)