doublé de, "lined with," i.e.joined to

34. Marengo, victory of Napoléon over the Austrians, June 14, 1800, resulting in the Peace of Luneville, Feb. 9, 1801, and indirectly in the Concordat with the Pope, the restoration of public religious worship, July 15, 1801, the Peace of Amiens, March 27, 1802, and a decree of gênerai amnesty to the émigrés., under which Duke Jean had returned to France.

36. biens vendus, estâtes sold. The estâtes of emigrant nobles had been confiscated at various tinies after 1791; an issue of bank-notes {assignats) had been secured by them, and other public domains and estâtes had been sold to individuals for thèse and especially for the " territorial mandates " which replaced them in 1795. (Decree of 26th Ventôse, Year IV.) The estâtes of the Church, similarly treated, had been already confiscated in 1789.

42, / count my patents of nobility (engrossed on " parchment") as ofvery little worth.

45. cidre du marché. It is a custom in some districts of most countries to conclude a bargain {marche) by drinking together. Cider is the local beverage of Normandy, and much used throughout the west of PVance.