Martin's History of France: the Age of Louis Xiv 1
Martin's History of France: the Age of Louis Xiv 1
Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise), 1831-1889, Tr
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p. 887. Bas- nage, tIL vol. i. is 878 LOUIS XIV; l«7t. obligated themselves to put an army of eighteen thousand men at the disposal of the Duke of Lorraine, and to reestablish him in his States. 1 September 18, the French ambassador, Gr&nonville, was dis- missed from Vienna* All his diplomatic genius had been unable to prevail against the force of the situation.* At the moment when hostilities were recommencing in Germany between Turenne and Montecuculi, Louis XIV. offered to Hol- land, through... the channel of the Swedish mediators, conditions much less disadvantageous than he had done a month before. He demanded no longer but, 1st, Maestricht, or Namur and Mons in exchange ; 2d, Aire, Saint-Omer, and Cambrai ; 8, Tpres, Cassel, and Bailleul, or Franche-Comte, or Luxemburg, or Grave and half the mayoralty of Bois-le-Duc ; Spain being indemnified by Holland for what it ceded to her (the middle of September). 2 These propositions were rejected. Military successes began to justify the firmness of the Dutch.
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