Annals of medical history . Louis xiv at onceclaimed for his wife her rights of successionin the Low Countries, also asserting that ashis wife was a minor at the time of hermarriage her father had no right to renounceher succession in her name. Upon the refusalof the Spanish government to comply withhis demand Louis invaded Flanders in1667. Its conquest was easy. Town aftertown yielded. Holland alarmed at thissuccess formed an alliance with Englandand Sweden, and Louis decided not toproceed further in his triumphal treaty of Ai\-la-Chapelle was concludedwith S|)ain in if)68. Louis w
Annals of medical history . Louis xiv at onceclaimed for his wife her rights of successionin the Low Countries, also asserting that ashis wife was a minor at the time of hermarriage her father had no right to renounceher succession in her name. Upon the refusalof the Spanish government to comply withhis demand Louis invaded Flanders in1667. Its conquest was easy. Town aftertown yielded. Holland alarmed at thissuccess formed an alliance with Englandand Sweden, and Louis decided not toproceed further in his triumphal treaty of Ai\-la-Chapelle was concludedwith S|)ain in if)68. Louis was bitterlyollended by the action of I lolland and deter-mined to be avenged on the bourgeois Guv Patin and the Medical Profession in Paris in the Seventeenth Century 147 commonwealth. By a large bribe he seducedthe Swedes frcjm the alliance. His brotherPhilippe dOrieans who was a very worthlessindividual had married Henrietta, the sisterof Charles 11, who was known by the officialtitle of Madame. She was chosen to negoti-. pRANfOIS GuENALLT(15 1667) ate with Charles 11 in 1670 and soon succeed-ed in persuading and bribing her brother toabandon the Hollanders and enter into analliance with the French King. On herreturn to the French court Madame diedsuddenly. Suspicions of poisoning were atonce aroused but they were certainlj-groundless. Bossuet preached a famoussermon in her honor. The neutrality or aidof the Emperor and the various petty poten-tates of Germany was secured, and theway being thus prepared, in the spring of1672 France declared war on the French won great mihtarysuccesses at its outset, this war was thebeginning of the misfortunes which dark-ened the last years of the reign of LouisXIV. Within a few years England and mostof his other allies had abandoned him. New alliances were formed to combat hisoverweening ambition. Against PrinceEugene and Marlborough the French armiessustained a series of terrible defeats. ThePrince of Orange, his most deter
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