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made him a cardinal Why can it not also e!"() () Juan Angelo Braschi, whoanelli's successor, and took

possession of the papal chair as Pius VI He was chosen

after a very stormy conclave and indeed the different

parties voted for hied to no

party, and because they thought he was so very much occupied

with his own beauty that he would think of nothing else,

and, while occupied with the care of his face, would leave

the cares of state to others

"What drea his shoulders; "the

idea that a Braschi could be the successor of the noble Ganganelli!"

Many cardinals and princes of the Church, n

ambassadors, were asseanelli entered, they all received him with joyful acclamations,

and humbly fell upon their knees before the head of the church, the

vicegerent of God, ith sole, and then condescendingly conversed with theed to subject himself once a week,

and which he reckoned as not one of the least of the troubles attendant

upon his exalted position Hence he ell pleased when this hour

was over, and he at length was relieved of the presence of all these

eulogistic and flattering gentlemen