chevaliers de la langue française, French knights

8. Rivoli, in upper Italy, famous for a great victory of Bonaparte in January 1797.

9. Mantoue, Mantua^ a strong city in upper Italy, taken by Bonaparte after the battle of Rivoli.

Page 6. — I. arrêté, concluded.

2. congrès de Rastadt, the Congress of Rastadt in 1797-99 had

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for its object the re-arrangement of the map of Germany, by providing compensation for those princes who had relinquished to France territory on the left bank of the Rhine.