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In 1700 Louis XIV, ‘Mars Christianissimus’ as Leibniz had satirically called him, had been at work disrupting Europe for nearly thirty years. By 1688 France stood alone confronted by a coalition in which difference between Catholic and Protestant mattered not at all. The Emperor, the King of England, the Grand Pensionary of the United Provinces, the Great Elector of Brandenburg and others with various forms of statecraft and different churches were sworn to fight together to bring France down.
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F. Rousseau, Un réformateur français en Espagne au XVIIIe siècle: Orry, 1701 1714, (Paris, 1912 ), p. 16.
F. Combes, La Princesse des Ursins: essai sur sa vie et son caractère politique (Paris, 1858 ), p. 17.
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Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W.N. (1979). The Reign of Felipe V (1700–46). In: Eighteenth-Century Spain 1700–1788. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01803-1_2
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