# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:51:07.469Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Giovanni Angelo Braschi on Christmas Day 1717, he ascended to the papacy in February 1775 and would hold it for over twenty-four years — the fifth-longest reign in the Church's history. When the French Revolution erupted, Pius condemned both the upheaval and the dismantling of the Church in France. Bonaparte's troops defeated the Papal army in 1796 and occupied the Papal States. Two years later, when Pius refused to renounce his temporal power, the French took him prisoner and hauled him to France. He died eighteen months later in Valence in August 1799, the longest-ruling pope the Papal States would ever see.