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ALEXANDER VIII

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER VIII . (Pietro Ottoboni), See also:pope from 1689 to 1691, was See also:born in 1610 of a See also:noble Venetian See also:family, was created See also:cardinal, and then successively See also:bishop of See also:Brescia and datary. The See also:ambassador of See also:Louis XIV. succeeded in procuring his See also:election on the 6th of See also:October 1689 as successor to See also:Innocent XI.; nevertheless, after months of negotiation Alexander finally condemned the See also:declaration made in 1682 by the See also:French See also:clergy concerning the liberties of the Gallican See also:church. Charities on a large See also:scale and unbounded nepotism exhausted the papal See also:treasury. He bought the books and See also:manuscripts of See also:Queen See also:Christina of See also:Sweden for the Vatican library. Alexander condemned in 1690 the doctrines of so-called philosophic See also:sin, taught in the Jesuit See also:schools. He died on the 1st of See also:February 1691. (W. W.

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