CHAP. XIII.] NOTES

seat of power was at Berne, was forced on Switzerland as a vvhole, but never fuUy accepted by the Forest Cantons even after the sanguinary struggle of 1798.

1. 30. un parti, etc. There were two parties in Switzerland, answering nearly to Republicans and Democrats in the United States of our day. The one, called Unionists, demanded a centralised form of government ; the other, the Federalists, wished to maintain the old looser form of Confédération. The former were supported by the French.

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