destitué, deposed

1. 19. Fottché (Joseph, i^ii^ — 1820), Duke ofOtranto, was minister of police from the i3th Thermidor, year VII (July 31, 1798), till i8io; he was succeeded by the duke of Rovigo. The memoirs published under his name are not his own work, but they seem to hâve been composed from authentic documents.

1. 22. succomber; the battle of Jena, 14 October 1806, in which Prussia was beaten by Napoléon, was foUowed by the battles of Eylau and Friedland (Feb. and June 1807), after which Russia and Prussia made peace with France at Tilsit (July 1807). Austria had made peace in December 1805 after the battle of Austerlitz. The period from the Peace of Tilsit to the outbreak of the Spanish revolt (March 1808) was the climax of Napoleon's power, England alone continuing the war.

1. 28. M. de Castellane, the name of that property was Acosta, near the small town of Meulan (L. Mellentum), in the department of Seine-et-Oise.