[@Willy Vereb]

We had a Discord but I nuked it for lack of interest until [@Mutmer] appeared and inadvertently revived it. That said: don't take his Batavian state serious because I rejected it. It's a non-issue.

As per-Venice: no it was ceded to Austria as a secret clause of Compo Formio I believe in 1790-something. It had been one of the Italian states he brought under French control initially but was given as an offering to Austria early on, before divergence, to end the War of the First Coalition.