Original sentence: However, Venetian noblewomen manufactured a temporary papier-mâché tiara for the new pontiff to wear, decorating it with their own jewels.Napoleon had extorted great treasures from the Church at the Treaty of Tolentino in 1797; Pius VI had brought no tiara with him when he had been deposed and forcibly escorted out of Rome by French troops, at Berthier's orders, on 20 February 1798.On 14 March 1800 Barnaba Cardinal Chiaramonte was elected pope in a conclave held not in the Quirinal Palace or the Vatican, where papal conclaves traditionally occurred, but in Venice.On his election, Chiaramonte, who had taken the name Pope Pius VII, found himself without a crown.Rome was then the Roman Republic, after the capture of Rome in 1798  by the troops of the French Directory.This unusual papal coronation on March 21, 1800 occurred in a cramped monastery church
Edited sentence: However Venetian noblewomen manufactured a temporary papier-mâché tiara for the new pontiff to wear, decorating it with their own jewels.On 14 March 1800 Barnaba Cardinal Chiaramonte was elected pope in a conclave held not in the Quirinal Palace or the Vatican, where papal conclaves traditionally occurred, but in Venice, to which the church leadership had fled following an attack by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's troops on Rome.On his election, Chiaramonte, who had taken the name Pope Pius VII, found himself without a crown; none had been brought by his predecessor Pope Pius VI when on 20 February 1798 the terminally ill pope had literally been flung, possessing no more than the cassock he was wearing, into an unmarked carriage and driven at speed to Tuscany to avoid his planned murder by Napoleon's troops.This unusual papal coronation on March 21, 1800 occurred in a cramped monastery church, while the coffined corpse of his predecessor, dead seven months, remained unburied on the orders of pro-Napoleonic clergy, the late pontiff's coffin labelled simply "Citizen Braschi, exercising the profession of Pontiff"