Fœderative

[…]or whether with reſpect to the conſquences that it produced from the extinction of a party, which, if it did not aim at overturning the French revolution, would moſt certainly, had Lyons been able to beat off the beſieging army, have ſeparated the ſouth from the north of France, and have eſtablished in it a fœderative republic.