. European history : an outline of its development. A North View of Gibraltar The exhaus-tion Westphalia marks the decline of the house of Hapsburg andthe rise of France to the first place in Europe, so that ofUtrecht marks the decline of France and the rise of Englandto a first place, not now in Europe merely but in the France Unable to prevent the Rise of England. —But this change was not a sudden one. A long and desper-ate struggle was still necessary to complete it. Louis gained from the War of the Spanish Succession what hehad set out to
. European history : an outline of its development. A North View of Gibraltar The exhaus-tion Westphalia marks the decline of the house of Hapsburg andthe rise of France to the first place in Europe, so that ofUtrecht marks the decline of France and the rise of Englandto a first place, not now in Europe merely but in the France Unable to prevent the Rise of England. —But this change was not a sudden one. A long and desper-ate struggle was still necessary to complete it. Louis gained from the War of the Spanish Succession what hehad set out to gain, — the throne of Spain for his grandson ;but it was at a fearful cost, and it proved of no value in the §§376,377] End of the Stuart Dynasty 383 end. The last half of the reign of Louis XIV. had been filledwith more disasters for France than the king knew of Theresources of the country were exhausted. Its industry under-mined. Its commerce almost destroyed. Agriculture wasweighed down by a heavy burden of taxation, and had suf-fered fr
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