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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUSCANY  .

Clement Salvator (b . 1904) . Rainer Charles Leopold Antony Francis lJoseph (b . 1895) . (b . 1897) . (b . 1901) . (b . 1905) . (b .

1868) . I I

Albert, Charles Ferdinand duke of Teschen (1818-1874) . (1817-1895) . Frederick Charles Stephen duke of Teschen (b . 186o) . (b . 1856) . I Albert Charles Albert Leo Charles (b . 1897) . (b . 1888) . (b .

1893) . I I Leopold

Joseph Antony (1772-1795) . (1776-1847) . (1780-1835) . Joseph (1833-19o5) . Joseph Augustus (b . 1872) . I Joseph IFrancis Ladislaus (b . 1895) . (b . 1901) . William (1827-1894) .

I I I I

John Rainer Louis Rudolph (1782-1859) . (1783-1853) . (1784-1864) . (1788-1831) . Leopold Ernest Sigismund Rainer Henry (1823-1898) . (1824-1899) . (1826-1891) . (b . 1827) . (1828-1891) . Ferdinand, duke of Modena (1754-1806) . .I Francis IV .

Maximilian Ferdinand duke of Modena Joseph (1781-1850) . (1779-1846) . (1782-1863) . I I I
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Eugene Francis V., Ferdinand (b . 1863). duke of Modena (1821-1849) . (1819-1875) . William (b . 1895) . Ferdinand III.,
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grand-duke of Tuscany (1769-1824) . Leopold II., grand-duke of Tuscany . (1797-1870) . Ferdinand IV .

Louis Salvator grand-duke of Tuscany (b . 1847) . (b . 1835) . 1 Leopold Ferdinand Joseph Ferdinand

Peter Ferdinand (b . 1872) Charles Salvator John Nepomuck Salvatoe (1839-1892) . (1852-1891) . Leopold Salvator Henry Ferdinand (b . 1863) . (b: 1874) . (b . 1878) .

Godfrey (b . 1902) . George (b . 1905) . Francis Salvator Albert Salvator (b . 1866) . (1871-1896) . I _' I Francis Charles Salvator Hubert Salvator Theodore Salvator (b . 1893) . (b . 1894) . (b .

1899) . Maria

Theresa and Francis Stephen; and it is interesting to note that the
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present Habsburgs are only descended in the
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female
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line from Rudolph I. and Maximilian I . Immediately after the
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death of Charles the Pragmatic Sanction was forgotten . A crowd of claimants called for various parts of the Habsburg lands; Frederick the
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Great, talking less but acting more, invaded and conquered
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Silesia, and it seemed likely that the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy would at no long
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interval follow the extinction of the Habsburg
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race . A
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Wittelsbach prince, Charles Albert, elector of Bavaria, the emperor Charles VII., and not Francis Stephen, was chosen emperor in
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January 1742, and by the treaty of Breslau, made later in the same
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year, nearly all Silesia was formally surrendered to Prussia . But the worst was now over, and when in 1748 the peace of
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Aix-la-Chapelle, which practically confirmed the treaty of Breslau, had cleared away the dust of war, Maria Theresa and her consort were found to occupy a strong position in
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Europe . In the first place, in September 1745, Francis had been chosen emperor; then the imperial pair ruled Hungary and Bohemia, although the latter
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kingdom was shorn of Silesia; in spite of French conquests the
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Austrian
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Netherlands remained in their hands; and in Italy Francis had added Tuscany to his wife's heritage, although
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Parma and Piacenza had been surrendered to Spain and
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part of Milan to the king of Sardinia . The
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diplomatic volte-face and the futile attempts of Maria Theresa to recover Silesia which followed this treaty belong to the general
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history of Europe . The emperor Francis I. died in 1765 and was succeeded by his son Joseph II., an ambitious and able prince, whose aim was to restore the Habsburgs and the
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Empire to their former great positions in Europe, and whose pride did not prevent him from learning from Frederick the Great,• the despoiler of his house . His projects, however, including one of uniting Bavaria with Austria, which was especially cherished, failed completely, and when he died in
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February 1790* he
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left his lands in a state of turbulence which reflected the general condition of Europe . The Netherlands had risen against the Austrians, and in January 1790 had declared themselves
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independent; Hungary, angered by Joseph's despotic
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measures, was in revolt, and the other parts of the monarchy were hardly more contented . But the 18th century saw a few successes for the Habsburgs .

In 1718 a successful war with

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Turkey was ended by the peace of Passarowitz, which advanced the Austrian boundary very considerably to the east, and although by the treaty of Belgrade, signed twenty-one years later, a large part of this territory was surrendered, yet a residuum, the banate of
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Temesvar, was permanently incorporated with Hungary . The struggle over the succession to Bavaria, which was concluded in 1779 by the treaty of Teschen, was responsible for adding Innviertel, or the quarter of the
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Inn, to Austria; the first
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partition of Poland brought eastern Galicia and Lodomeria, and in 1777 the sultan ceded
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Bukovina . Joseph II. was followed by his
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brother, Leopold II., who restored the Austrian authority in the Netherlands, and the latter by his son Francis II., who resigned the
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crown of the
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Holy
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Roman Empire in August 18o6, having two years before taken the title of emperor of Austria as Francis I . Before the abdication of the emperor Francis in 18o6 Austria had met and suffered from the fury of revolutionary France, but the cessions of territory made by her at the
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treaties of Campo Formio (1797), of
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Luneville (18or) and of Pressburg (18o5) were of no enduring importance . This, however, cannot be said for the treaties of Paris and of Vienna, which in 1814 and 1815 arranged the map of Europe upon the conclusion of the
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Napoleonic
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wars . These were highly favourable to the Habsburgs . In eastern and central Europe Austria regained her former position, the lands ceded to Bavaria and also eastern Galicia, which had been in the hands of Russia since 1809, being restored; she gave up the Austrian Netherlands, soon to be known as Belgium, to the new kingdom of the Netherlands, and acquiesced in the arrangement which had taken from her the
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Breisgau and the remnant of the Habsburg lands upon the Rhine .

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