Volume 6 (of 6) 53/75 the states of the Pope are now reunited to the French empire."] [Footnote 5136: Senatus-consulte, Feb. 17, 1810, title II., article XII. "Any foreign sovereignty is incompatible with the exercise of any spiritual sovereignty within the empire."] [Footnote 5137: D'Haussonville, ibid., IV.,344. (Decree of the National Council, Aug. 5, 1811 .-- Concordat of Fontainebleau, Jan. |