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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

Note 82 — BOOK XIII[1] (continued 2)

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Benedict Cajetan, Pope Boniface VIII. (circa 1228-1303), elected Pope in 1294, issued the bull Clericis laicos against Philip the Fair in 1296 and in 1302, at a synod held in Rome, promulgated the bull Unam sanctam, asserting the temporal as well as the spiritual supremacy of the Pope. He died in Rome of a fever induced by the ill-treatment which he had received while under arrest at Anagni.—T.

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