Éclaircissement familier de la question: Si une femme a été assise au siège papal de Rome

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    …destroy the myth, in his Éclaircissement familier de la question: si une femme a été assise au siège papal de Rome (1647; “Familiar Enlightenment of the Question: Whether a Woman Has Been Seated on the Papal Throne in Rome”). According to one theory, the fable grew from widespread gossip concerning…

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