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Within an hour after artillery fire had given place to the uncertain stillness preceding the formal capitulation of General Kanzler, commandant of the Papal forces, a cortège of carriages could be seen wending its way through the streets of the Eternal City in the direction of Porta Pia. Each vehicle bore ostentatiously the escutcheon of a foreign power. Their elegantly clad if not uniformed passengers presented a strange contrast to the scenes of destruction and bloodshed that were encountered as the city walls were neared. Early that morning they, members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Sovereign Pontiff, had gathered by pre-arrangement at the Vatican when the cannon of the investing Italian army began to batter the old walls and gates of the city. They had assisted at mass celebrated by the aged Pius IX and later they had joined him in his library, to be present when he issued the formal order to hoist the white flag.
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Clarke Jervoise’s correspondence published in the Blue Book reflects the irritation he must have felt at von Arnim’s negligence in not transmitting to him, as requested, the Pope’s desires. Cf. British Parliamentary Papers 1871. LXXII. Rome. No. I. Correspondence respecting the affairs of Rome, 1870–1871. p. 41.
A. E. Fr. Rome. 1050. March 21, 1871. Folio pages 134–139. Cf. also Favre, Rome et la République Française, p. 77, for a toned-down version of this dispatch.
Op. cit. p. 53–54.
On November 20, 1870, the Belgian minister Pycke telegraphed Brussels: “Le Cabinet de Vienne a interdit à son Ambassadeur, doyen du corps diplomatique à Rome, toute démarche de courtoisie envers le Roi d’Italie, si celui-ci n’est pas reçu par le Pape. Adhésion des ministres étrangers, sauf celle du ministre du Portugal qui est douteuse. Le Pape décidément ne recevra pas le Roi. Florence informé n’objecte rien. Entrée du Roi ajournée indéfiniment”. (A.M.A.E.B. Saint-Siège. 132–333, 20/11/70).
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Graham, R.A. (1951). The Diplomatic Corps and the Crisis of September. In: The Rise of the Double Diplomatic Corps in Rome. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1023-3_2
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