AHC: The Papacy permanently evicted from Rome/The Vatican

Instead of the "Prisoner in the Vatican" compromise achieved during Italian unification, how about France offering the Comtat Venaissin back or another Catholic country offering refuge to Pius IX?
 

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Instead of the "Prisoner in the Vatican" compromise achieved during Italian unification, how about France offering the Comtat Venaissin back or another Catholic country offering refuge to Pius IX?

Venaissin: not gonna happen after the revolution (no, seriously).
Andorra and Lichtenstein, however, were OTL proposals, with Andorra being rather obviously easy.
 
Venaissin: not gonna happen after the revolution (no, seriously).
Andorra and Lichtenstein, however, were OTL proposals, with Andorra being rather obviously easy.

Yeah, I got that impression.

And replacing one European microstate with another seems so obvious in hindsight - d'oh.
 
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