LUNEVILLE, In'nA'01'. A town in the De partment of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, on the :Nfeurthe. miles by rail southeast of Nancy (Map: France. N 3 ). The Church of Saint Jacques (17:30-45). decorated with frescoes and wood carvings, is worthy of notice. The former palace of the dukes of Lorraine (1703-06) was ex tended by Stanislas Leszezynski, the ex-King of Poland. and is now used as barracks, and its gardens have been converted into promenades. The town has a college and a library and a museum in the town hall. The chief products are faience, linen, machinery, wagons, leather, gloves, etc. The trade is in agricultural prod ucts, wine, and local manufactures. Population, in 1891, 21,542; in 1901, 23.269. At Lumtville. February 9. 1801, Austria and the German Em pire concluded 'a peace with France. The war which this treaty ended had hegun in 1799. after the departure of Napoleon for Egypt, and is known in history as the 'War of the Second Coalition,' England, Austria, Turkey. Russia, Por tugal. and Naples all having combined against France. At first the Allies were successful, lint after Napoleon's return the Austrians were de cisively defeated on June 14. 1800, by Napoleon himself at Marengo. and on December 3d by Moreau. at Bohenlinden. The Emperor Francis thereupon accepted the Peace of Lun'ville. which was based on that of Campo-Formio Germany west of the Rhine was relinquished to France. and an important change ensued in the
composition of the German Empire through the secularization of ecclesiastical States and the incorporation of free cities with the hereditary principalities. These changes in the Empire were not consummated until 1803, when the Imperial Delegation published its conclusions. The Rhine from source to mouth was made the boundary of France. The independenee of the Batavian, Helvetic, and Ligu rian republics was recognized; Austria was guaranteed the possession of Venetia as far as the Adige, which became the boundary of the Austrian possessions in Northern Italy; the Grand Duke of Tuscany lost his land to the Duke of Parma; the Duchy of Modena was an nexed to the Cisapline Republic. its ruler re :riving the Breisgau in exchange. The princes dispossessed on the left bank of the Rhine were to be indemnified by the secularization of ecclesi astical lands on the right bank. The treaty was signed by Francis 11. both as sovereign of Aus tria and as head of the Holy Roman Empire, though, by the fundamental law of the Empire. the Emperor could not bind the electors and States of Germany without their previous con sent. Consult Sloane. Life of Napoleon Bona parte (Ne• York, 1896).