bien que= quoique

1. 19. diplomates ; diplomatiques would be more grammatical, diplomate being a substantive.

réunir Genève à la France, in 1798. Geneva became under the empire the chief town of the department of Léman. Its classical name was Genua (district of the Allobroges).

1. 25. berceau de la réformation. Geneva was surnamed la Rome du Calvinisme. Calvin lived and ruled there for many years.

plus d^ hommes distingués ; see a long list in Bouillet's Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie, s. v. Genève.