CHAPITRE X. (XXVL

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1. II. Hollande, etc.; thèse were called the Batavian, the Helvetian, the Cisalpine (Piedmont and Lombardy), and the Ligurian Republics. Thèse republics were afterwards annexed to France, or became subject kingdoms.

1. 14. Cest un des grands défauts...que de s'imiter. Que is hère a neuter pronoun. The sentence, analysed, would run thus: la chose, c'est à dire s'imiter, est un des grands défauts.

1. 26. la cession, etc. Austria, in the treaty of Campo Formio, acquiesced in the partition of the Venetian Republic, and was rewarded with the town of Venice itself, and with Istria and Dalmatia. France took the Adriatic islands and other territories from Venice, and the Duchy of Milan, etc. from Austria.

1. 31. partage de la Pologne, which began in 1 774, and was completed in 1795. Roland was divided between Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

1. 4. se faisait remarquer, attracted notice. 1. 7. aux républiques Cisalpine et Ligurienne, in 1797.

124 CONSIDÉRATIONS, à^c. [chap. x.