The signatories for France were the French Directory's Ambassador to the Holy See, François Cacault, and the rising General Napoleon Bonaparte and opposite them four representatives of Pope Pius VI's curia.

The French commissioners reserved the right to enter any building, public, religious or private, to make their choice and assessment of what was to be taken to France.

Of the French terms, the confiscation of artistic works - or, as many considered it, theft and plunder - came under criticism and its legitimacy questioned.

Of the confiscated works of art, a marble copy of a bronze statue of Lucius Junius Brutus remains in Paris.

[1] Just a year later, the French Army invaded the rest of the Papal States and arrested Pius VI, imposing a Roman Republic.