Michael Davies describes the final battles of Napoleon and Pius VII are recounted with Napoleon’s exile to Elbe and later St. Helena. Confrontation of the sort that Mr. Davies describes could not go on forever without Napoleon’s prestige among Catholics suffering badly. The battle of Emperor and Pope had to be resolved. Who would give in? What machinations were involved to resolve the embittered relationship of Church and State? What brought this to a head at Fontainebleau?