. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . y sheer force of its ownworkings, produced an almost intolerable re-sult. At one time it appeared that CharlesV. was to receive by legitimate inheritancethe larger part of Continental Europe. Ifthe so-called Balance of Power amoug theEuropean States is to be preserved, then thesovereigns who wear the crowns may well beconstrained to give heed to the ma
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . y sheer force of its ownworkings, produced an almost intolerable re-sult. At one time it appeared that CharlesV. was to receive by legitimate inheritancethe larger part of Continental Europe. Ifthe so-called Balance of Power amoug theEuropean States is to be preserved, then thesovereigns who wear the crowns may well beconstrained to give heed to the marriage com-pacts by which the crown is to be deflected inthis direction or in that. At the time of which we speak, young 314 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. Isabella II., of Spain, who had uow reachedthe age of sixteen, was thought to be eligiblefor marriage. It had loDg been the policy ofFrance, as far as practicable, to keep up theunion of blood and interest between the Frenchand Spanish Bourbons. The attempt to do sohad, in more than one instance, been thecause of war. It might have been thoughtthat, with the accession of the younger branchof Bourbon, in the person of the Citizen Kingof France, the traditional policy would have. ELISHA KFNT KANE. been abandoned. But Louis Philippe, andGuizot, his Minister of State, seem, on thecontrary, to have strongly desired that theyoung Queen of Spain should be wedded to aFrench Prince. The king himself had twoeligible sons who might asj)ire to Isabellashand. The elder of these was the DiicdAumale, and the younger the Due de It happened, moreover, that theSpanish Queen had a marriageable si-ster, theso-called Infanta, Princess Maria Louisa, whomust also be provided with a husband. The intrigue of Louis Philippe was far-reaching in its character. His programme con-templated the marriage of Isabella to hercousin, Francisco de Assis, and the coincidentmarriage of the Due de Montpensier and th&Infanta. It was conjectur
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