Now that I think about it, there would be another important international actor who currently still resides in Paris, namely Pius VII, who only on 23 January 1814, dressed in the clothes of an ordinary bishop, was taken to nice via a tortuous route to get around the Rhone valley ( but the disguise created by the Bonapartists didn't work, so the prisoner's journey became a long festive procession among the French population, who greeted him along the way ) with the aim of bringing him back to Savona, where on 16 February he entered again in the city ( where you resided until Napoleon's abdication in April of the same year, he return to Rome only on May 24th ) now considering the very long negotiations due to the Vienna / Paris congress in Otl, it is not difficult to imagine that at least cardinal Consalvi is present in the city, and that he can be used as an intermediary by Franz to obtain guarantees on the protection of his nephew, for the rest of the chapter, sublime as usual, Klemens' joke regarding the inability of the Bourbons to think of an overly complex plan to get rid of a possible inconvenient competitor ( unlike the Medici or the Borgias ) is very funny, is there any chance that Franz could convince the British not to totally trust King Louis, given that Louis is already demonstrating that he wants to play on multiple fronts simultaneously ( promising to assist Ferdinand but supporting Murat's government ) perhaps by trying to make direct contact with Georgie Porgy to try to flatter him, convincing him that Vienna will support his ambitions for Hanover ?
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