France . taining the right to garrison the towns which formed the barrier against France (Namur, Tournai, Ypres, etc.).Louis retained LiUe and French Flanders, as well as Alsace(including Strasburg). He recognized the Elector ofBrandenburgs title as King of Prussia, and his sovereigntyover Neuchatel and Valengin ; to Portugal he cededterritory in dispute on the frontiers of Bresi and theFrench Guyane ; and to Victor Amedeus restored Niceand Savoy, receiving, in return for some territory on thePiedmont side, the VaUey of Barcelonnette. He promisedhim the kingdom of Sicily and the succession to
France . taining the right to garrison the towns which formed the barrier against France (Namur, Tournai, Ypres, etc.).Louis retained LiUe and French Flanders, as well as Alsace(including Strasburg). He recognized the Elector ofBrandenburgs title as King of Prussia, and his sovereigntyover Neuchatel and Valengin ; to Portugal he cededterritory in dispute on the frontiers of Bresi and theFrench Guyane ; and to Victor Amedeus restored Niceand Savoy, receiving, in return for some territory on thePiedmont side, the VaUey of Barcelonnette. He promisedhim the kingdom of Sicily and the succession to theSpanish throne in the event of the extinction of theBoiirbon dynasty in Spain. As the result of aU his ambitious efforts, Louis had madea small addition to French territory,* but, in doing so, hehad gambled away the prestige of France and ruined herfinances. I have been too fond of war. Do not imitateme in that, nor in my excessive expenditure. So the* French Flanders, Strasburg, and the LOUIS XV, (1715-1774).From the picture by Charles Andrew Vanloo at Ver DEATH OF THE GRAND MONARQUE 305 aged monarch confessed his failure, when on his death-bedhe handed on the task of autocracy to his sole survivinglegitimate descendant, Louis XV., a beautiful child of whilst France was thus weakened; whilst her invinciblearmy had been beaten again and again, her fleet destroyed,her colonies crippled ; and whilst her people were starving,England, Protestant, united and free, had risen to bethe foremost maritime Power. In Austria the House ofHapsburg had lost Spain, but gained the Netherlandsand much in Italy, and, whilst retaining the title ofEmperor and the European complications it involved,had almost succeeded by this time in winning Hungaryfrom the Turks. And the new sun of Prussia was risingabove the horizon of the Rhine. Frederick-William beginning to prepare the army and resources ofFrederick the Great. Louis the Great died on September 1, 1715. He hadM
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