un fonds, a plot of ground

1. 38. n''e2it plus Sedan, on the 29th of September, 1642, the duke de Bouillon was obliged to deliver up Sedan to the king, as the price of his pardon and his liberty.

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1. 7. nomftié Hervart. This financier had already rendered great services to France. "On vit un banquier protestant, Barthélémy Hervart, originaire de la Souabe, mettre sa fortune à la disposition de Richelieu pour aider ce ministre à retenir un corps de 10,000 Suédois qui, faute de solde, allaient l'abandonner au moment même de l'invasion de l'Alsace." (Caillet, tibi suprà, p. 114.)

1. 7. entrèrent dans les fermes ofc, undertook the office of farming the public revenues, either as chiefs or subordinates.