The History of the Popes From the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 40: Drawn From the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources; Pius Vi; 1775 1799 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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These representations of the nuncio, which could have had no other object than to pave the way for negotiations, fell on ground that was not entirely unprepared. Since the Alsatian Franz Heinrich Beck had come within the inner circle of the Archbishop's acquaintances, in 1773, things had not been the same in Trier as in the days when the Elector had given his suffragan Bishop protection and security without hesitation. Beck,2 who had had the advantage of being trained in Stras bourg, had worked as a member of the Society of Jesus in Alsace, and then in Wiirttemberg. For some time now he had been exerting a considerable influence on the Electoral Court of Trier, and in an anti-febronian direction.

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