A cadaver covered with a pall, lies between four tapers. She is the temporal power. In front of the catafalque is a box wide opened: the foreign affairs. A new law which the Italian Parliament had passed in May 1871, ended the Pope's claim to temporal rights once and for all (pouvoir temporel).
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, August 7, 1871.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
