Last Years
Caprara lived in Paris until his death. The relations with Napoleon became more and more difficult, and his pleaser character bore to him dissatisfaction by the Pope. The situation degenerated in 1808 when the Napoleonic army entered in the Papal States. After that on 3 February 1808 General Miollis occupied Rome, Caprara resigned as legate, but contrarily to the papal order he did not left Paris. Still in 1809, when Pope Pius VII was already captive in Savona, Caprara pleaded the pope to support Napoleon. Declining health saved him from the embarrassment connected with the divorce and second marriage of Napoleon (April 1810).
Caprara died at Paris on 21 June 1810. In his last will his fortune was left to the hospital of Milan. Caprara had a solemn funeral for order of Napoleon, and his body was buried in the Panthéon of Paris (where remained until 1861) while his heart was buried in the Cathedral of Milan.
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