. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. found a second favorite, Madame du Barry,upon whom he was able to squander 180,000,000livres (say $36,000,000)l in five years, and thiswhile the finances of France were declining inever-increasing disorder. In 1774, Louis XV sank unwept to the his personal profligacy he did not failto realize the evil state of France. This willlast through my time ; he said cynically, com-menting on the rotten condition of his Gov-ernment. All his life he had been sowing thewind. His unlucky successor was to reap thewhirlwind. 200.
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. found a second favorite, Madame du Barry,upon whom he was able to squander 180,000,000livres (say $36,000,000)l in five years, and thiswhile the finances of France were declining inever-increasing disorder. In 1774, Louis XV sank unwept to the his personal profligacy he did not failto realize the evil state of France. This willlast through my time ; he said cynically, com-menting on the rotten condition of his Gov-ernment. All his life he had been sowing thewind. His unlucky successor was to reap thewhirlwind. 200. Maria Theresa of Austria (1740-80).Far nobler than this degenerate scion of thegreat French line was the woman who occupiedfor many years the rival throne of the 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, died, leav-ing by a Pragmatic Sanction 2 all hereditary lands to hisonly child, his daughter, Maria Theresa. Thanks to the factthat it was alleged that a woman could not inherit the Austrianlands of the Hapsburgs, greedy pretenders appeared. Maria. COSTUME OF AGENTLEMAN,ABOUT 1770 Note that the wigis smaller than in1720, and the dresssimpler. A snuffboxand a walking-swordwere still essentialparts of a masculineoutfit. (From an en-graving by Moreaule Jeune) 1 Really a great deal more, for the purchasing power of money was still muchgreater in the eighteenth century than at present. 2 An especially solemn bequest bestowing the succession to the monarchy. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 351 Theresa for a little while seemed forced to fight half of Eu-rope; but she rose to the occasion magnificently, though at firsther armies were disorganized, her lands nigh overrun. Let usdie for our King, Maria Theresa! cried the Hungarian mag-nates, when the high-souled lady appealed to them to defendher cause and that of her infant son, Joseph (II). Her claimswere presently vindicated. Her husband, Francis of Lorraine,was recognized as Emperor. During a long life she ruled overher heterog
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