. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. French Postilion. —Fifteenth Century. 312 HISTORY OF Louis XIV., Madame de Maintenon, and Philip, Duke of Orleans. CHAPTER XIV.—THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION. A. D. Does he not mourn the valiant thousands slain— The heroes once the glory of the plain, Left in the conflict of the fatal day, Or the wolfs portion, or the vultures prey ? Priob. 1. The last male descendant of the emperoi17*00 Charles V. was Charles II., king of Spain, a monarchequally weak in health and intellect. He was f
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. French Postilion. —Fifteenth Century. 312 HISTORY OF Louis XIV., Madame de Maintenon, and Philip, Duke of Orleans. CHAPTER XIV.—THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION. A. D. Does he not mourn the valiant thousands slain— The heroes once the glory of the plain, Left in the conflict of the fatal day, Or the wolfs portion, or the vultures prey ? Priob. 1. The last male descendant of the emperoi17*00 Charles V. was Charles II., king of Spain, a monarchequally weak in health and intellect. He was fastsinking into the grave, and as he had no children, the ques-tion of his succession was the chief object of speculationthroughout Europe. The king of France and the emperorof Germany were both his cousins and his brothers-in-law;their claims to the inheritance were therefore nearly equal,but Louis, who in both ways had the advantage of seniority inthe princesses from whom his right was derived, had formallyresigned all his pretensions by the treaty of the the inheritance was yet vacant, a treaty of partitionwas made f
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