Louis Alexandre Berthier
Louis Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel (February 20, 1753 – June 1, 1815), marshal of France, Vice-Constable of France beginning in 1808, and Chief of Staff under Napoleon, was born at Versailles.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Alexandre_Berthier
Actually, in 1797 the French general Berthier came to Rome and did not subdue it. A year later, in 1798, Berthier took the pope prisoner, and took him back to France, where he died. Most people thought the papacy was dead. This was at the time of the French Revolution and the Age of Reason. Atheism and Man's reason was thought to be supreme. For this and other reasons, people started to flee to the recently populated United States. The United States became a refuge from political and religious persecution. A slogan in the United States that came out of this time period was "A country without a king, and a church without a pope!"
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