sentences:  Herschweiler and Pettersheim now belonged to the "Mairie" of Conken, the Canton of Cousel, the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld and the Department of Sarre, whose seat was at Trier.Every village received its "adjoint" ("assistant").Meanwhile, Maximilian Joseph I's homeland, Bavaria, had been made into a kingdom in 1806 and Maximilian himself had become king, at Napoleon's pleasure, as a reward for having supported Napoleon in his war against Austria in the foregoing year.