 The visit lasted one day, since the French captain, despite the protestations of even the resident French Sub-Intendant in Tortona, the Pope was forced to take to the road again, since the schedule which the French guard had been given specified that the Pope arrive in Alessandria on 20 April.Pius VI died four months later, imprisoned in the prison-fortress at Valence.In 1802 all of the religious orders in the diocese were suppressed, in accordance with laws passed by the French Constitutional Assembly.