[1] During the French occupation,[3] religious orders were dissolved or expelled, and convents and monasteries closed and confiscated by the government.

The Pope was compelled to issue a bull, Gravissimis causis (1 June 1803),[5] in which the number of dioceses in Piedmont was reduced to eight: Turin, Vercelli, Ivrea, Acqui, Asti, Mondovi, Alessandria and Saluzzo.

This, and the appointment of bishops by Napoleon, caused great confusion, and once Bonaparte had been compelled to abdicate, and the Kingdom of Sardina was returned to the House of Savoy, a revision of the ecclesiastical situation was essential.

The church, whose existence is attested as far back as 1446, was severely damaged in the siege of 1744, and was rebuilt through the generosity of King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.

[10] In 1835 a major outbreak of "asiatic cholera" struck the Ligurian coast, and reached Cuneo in July of that year.