sentences:  It can be assumed that other people moved into the two villages after the Thirty Years' War, that French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest brought more destruction and death and that the population only once again began to climb appreciably in the 18th century.During French Revolutionary and Napoleonic times (1801-1814), the two villages lay within the Department of Sarre, and more locally in the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld, the Canton of Kusel and the "Mairie" (“Mayoralty”) of Ulmet.The two villages now effectively became one, for they now both had the same administrative structure.