que d'être obligée.... See above, note to

1. 20. devaient nécessairement y avoir contracté..., could not but hâve contracted.

1. 21. tout ensemble^ at the same time. Tout is hère an adverb.

1.-23. ont fondé sa puissance. Fouché, afterwards Duke of Otranto, Carnot, Barras, and many others, had taken an active part in the worst measures of the Reign of Terror.

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1. 5. le traité de Bâle avec la Prusse. The treaty hère alhided to was signed April 5, 1795. By it Prussia retired from the Coahtion, in which she had long taken a very lukewarm part.