Note 411 — Chapter XX · FALL OF THE EMPIRE.

This Act of Confederation of the Rhine (Rheinbund) is printed in Koch's Traités (continued by Schöll), vol. viii., and Meyer's Corpus Iuris Confœderationis Germanicæ, vol. i. It has every appearance of being a translation from the French, and was no doubt originally drawn up in that language. Napoleon is called in one place 'Der nämliche Monarch, dessen Absichten sich stets mit den wahren Interessen Deutschlands übereinstimmend gezeigt haben.' The phrase 'Roman Empire' does not occur: we hear only of the 'German Empire,' 'body of German states' (Staatskörper), and so forth. This Confederation of the Rhine was eventually joined by every German State except Austria, Prussia, Electoral Hesse, and Brunswick.