The church was chosen as the burial place for the higher prelates and members of the French community of Rome : these include the tomb of Pauline de Beaumont , who died of consumption in Rome in 1805 , erected by her lover Chateaubriand , the classic liberal economist Frédéric Bastiat , Cardinal François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis , ambassador in Rome for Louis XV and Louis XVI , and Henri Cleutin the French lieutenant in 16th-century Scotland .
The church is also a burial site for Pauline de Beaumont , Frédéric Bastiat , and Cardinal François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis .