The Fallen Stuarts (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Out of the chaos of Europe had emerged first the power of the House of Hapsburg, and then that of the House of Bourbon. The Thirty Years' War had made France an arbiter in Europe, and the Old rivalry of Louis XI and Charles the Bold was destined to revive under new conditions. The peace of 1648 settled the relations between France and the German House of Hapsburg. The bounds of the two were laid down, but between them lay a number of sovereign princes, who might be used by either against the other. In 1659 the rivalry of the two royal lines was ended by the alliance of Louis XIV with Maria Theresa, the Infanta, who renounced her claims to the Spanish throne. The mutual relations of these royal lines is the key to the events that followed.

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