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 again ruled France, the Roman curia repeatedly took steps to regain possession of the volume.

After the return of Pius VII. to Rome in 1814, after his compulsory residence at Fontainebleau, Mgr. Marini was staying at Paris as Papal Commissary, in order to demand from the new French Government the restitution of the archival treasures taken by Napoleon from the Holy See. He first applied for the Acts of Galileo's trial to the Minister of the Interior, who referred him to the Count de Blacas, Minister of the Royal Household. He assured Marini that he would have a search instituted in the royal library. He wrote on the same day to Barbier charging him to search for the documents, and to report to him on their historical value. Barbier's answer is too characteristic not to be given.