Boundaries of the kingdom; fluctuation; Romance tongue prevails in it 259 History of the Burgundian Palatinate; Besançon; Montbeliard 261 The Lesser Burgundy; partly German 261 The Dukes of Zähringen; the ecclesiastical states; the free cities; the free lands; growth of the Old League of High Germany 262 Growth of Savoy; Burgundian possessions of its counts 263 States between the Palatinate and the Mediterranean; Bresse and Bugey; principalities and free cities 263 County of Provence; its connexion with France 263-264 Progress of French annexation: 1310-1791: Lyons; the Dauphiny: Vienne; Valence; Provence; Avignon and Venaissin 264-265 Nizza 265 History of Orange 265-266 States which have split off from the Imperial kingdoms: Switzerland; Savoy; the duchy of Burgundy by Belgium and the Netherlands 266-267 The Austrian power; its position as a marchland; its union with Hungary; its relation to Eastern Europe 267-268 § 6. _The Swiss Confederation._ German origin of the Confederation; popular errors; sketch of Swiss history 268-270 The Three Lands; the cities: Luzern, Zürich, Bern; the Eight Ancient Cantons 270 Allies and subjects; dominion of Zürich and Bern; conquests from Austria 270-271 Italian conquests; first conquests from Savoy; League of Wallis 271-272 The Thirteen Cantons 272 League of Graubünden; further Italian and Savoyard conquests 272-273 History of Geneva; territory restored to Savoy; division of Gruyères 273-274 The Allied States; Neufchâtel; Constanz 274 The Confederation independent of the Empire; its position as a middle state 274-275 Wars of the French Revolution; Helvetic Republic; freedom of the subject lands; annexations to France 275-276 Act of Mediation; the nineteen cantons 276 The present Swiss Confederation 276 History of Neufchâtel 276 § 7. _The State of Savoy._ Position and growth of Savoy; three divisions of the Savoyard lands; popular confusions 277-278 The Savoyard power originally Burgundian; Maurienne; Aosta 278 First Italian possessions 279