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I'm about halfway through a fairly entertaining (and fairly depressing) book about the Avignon Papacy, and it got me to wondering - if there had been no French Revolution, how long could the Papal States have held on to their little French enclave? Was the Kingdom of France likely to annex the territory at all? It had been in place, absent the Popes, for quite some time, after all.

Any speculation from those more informed on the subject than I?
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