décliner

Les ammonites, dont l’influence avait été prépondérante au cours d’une ère précédente, déclinèrent, elles aussi, rapidement.
The ammonites, of preponderant influence during a previous age, also rapidly declined.
Exactement comme ces deux tendances furent produites au même moment, elles déclinèrent simultanément avec la vague de luttes qui les avait produites.
Just as these two tendencies were produced in the same moment, they waned simultaneously with the wave of struggles that had produced them.
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