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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 4 — BOOK XIII[1]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Bartolommeo Alberto Mauro Cardinal Capellari, later Pope Gregory XVI. (1765-1846), Abbot of the Camaldolian Monastery at Murano, created a cardinal in 1825. He was elected Pope after the death of Pius VIII. in 1831, when he took the name of Gregory XVI. He is the founder of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great.—T.

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