une facilité sociale, an easiness of intercourse

à taise, comfortably.

1. 8. des petits cantons, i. e. Uri, Schwytz, and Unterwalden, called also tlie Forest Cantons, round the head of the Lake of Lucerne. They were purely démocratie, their constitutions being based on almost universal suffrage. The richer cantons, in the lower country, such as Berne, were aristocratie. Thèse constitutions were crushed impartially by France. The Forest Cantons were Catholic, as were Valais and others : Berne, Baie, Zurich, &c. were Protestant.

• 1. II. d'injustes privilèges. " La féodalité, qui n'est que la hiérarchie militaire, existait entre les républiques. Et il y avait des peuples dépendant d'autres peuples, comme un vassal de son suzerain, et gémissant sous un joug de fer." (Thiers.)

1. 17. la médiation, etc. This occurred in 1803, when Bonaparte, by the so-called Acte de Médiation, made further changes in the constitution of the Helvetian Republic.

1. 18. quelques préjugés des cantons catholiques: this clause is am* biguous, it stands hère not for quelques préjugés que Von avait contre les cantons... but for quelques préjugés que les cantons catholiques avaient.

1. 26. V invasion dont ils étaient menacés =^ par laquelle ils étaient menacés.

1.28. la douloureuse angoisse... Douloureuse x^'^tons&'àchçxQ.

1. 29. mon propre pays, France ; though Madame de Staël might with almost equal propriety hâve spoken of Switzerland as **her own country."

1. 31. la bataille de Granson (L. Grandisonium, in the canton of Vaud). Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, was completely defeated there by the Swiss in 1476. The Canton de Vaud forms part of the country occupied in Csesar's days by the Helvetii.

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1. 9. des trois cents Spartiates, the three hundred Spartans Who peiished at Thermopylse with Leonidas.