[Footnote 97: These privileged places, the quartieri or
franchises, were adopted from the Roman nobles by the
foreign ministers. Julius II. had once abolished the
abominandum et detestandum franchitiarum hujusmodi nomen:
and after Sixtus V. they again revived. I cannot discern
either the justice or magnanimity of Louis XIV., who, in
1687, sent his ambassador, the marquis de Lavardin, to Rome,
with an armed force of a thousand officers, guards, and
domestics, to maintain this iniquitous claim, and insult
Pope Innocent XI. in the heart of his capital, (Vita di
Sisto V. tom. iii. p. 260 - 278. Muratori, Annali d'Italia,
tom. xv. p. 494 - 496, and Voltaire, Siccle de Louis XIV.
tom. i. c. 14, p. 58, 59.)]