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We will not go to Canossa. — Otto von Bismarck

We will not go to Canossa.

during his quarrel with Pope Pius IX regarding papal authority over German subjects, in allusion to the Emperor Henry IV’s submission to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Modena in 1077

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