Quoi qu'il en soit, whatever may be the resuit

1. 7. la confédération du Rliin. When the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist in 1806, most of the smaller states of Germany joined together under the protectorate of Napoléon, and assumed the title of Confédération of the Rhine.

1. 8. leur intérêt, because it was only through Napoleon's protection that they were sovereign princes, and had enlarged their territories at the expense of Prussia and Austria.

1. II. C/^ar/^j-, archduke of Austria (i 771 — 1847), lost the battle of Wagram, where he was wounded.

1. 12. s'' est heicrcusemeni refusé à, fortunately declined to submit to.