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1. 33. Berlin, occupied by the French after the battle of Jena.

1. 33. Vienne (L. Vindobona^ Flamana Castre^ yuliobona). Napoléon occupied it in 1805.

1. 38. JCœnigsbergf a city in Prussia ; taken in 1807 by the French under Marshal Soult.

1. 39. Tilsitt, a city in Prussia, on the Niémen and the Tilse. The treaty alluded to was, as a matter of fact, the partition of Europe between France and Russia.

L 30. Joseph Jérôme Siméan (1749 — 1843), a distînguished lawyer and statesman, firmly attached to the principles of constitutional freedom.

1. 31. royaume de Westphalie, Formed in 1807 by Napoléon for his brother Jérôme (1784 — 1860); occupied by the Prussians after the battle of Leipzig (181 3).

P. 33, 1. 6. Erfurt (L. Erfordia) in Saxony. A celebrated con« gress took place there between Napoléon, the emperor of Russia, and ail the German princes except the emperor of Austria and the king of Prussia (1808).

1. 7. Napoléon held a congress at Dresden in 1813 ; and defeated there on the 36th and 37th of August, 18 13, the combined armies of Austria, Prussia and Russia.

8o M. DARU.

1. 13. siathUtiquequ^UfiU^qtiU pàt Hre^ how atUetic soever he mîght be.

1. 18. un degré d^imihHvâf a certain degree of spontaneous action.

P* 33» 1* I* ^^^^^ ^^ ^Td&v de vues, in that sphère of ideas. The spirit of method, of organisation, of administration was quite* equal in Cuvier to his scientific genîus.

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