Brewer's: Confederation of the Rhine

Sixteen German provinces in 1806 dissolved their connection with Germany, and allied themselves with France. At the downfall of Napoleon in 1814 this confederation melted away of itself.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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