"Shall I not have a new heir given me by and by?
" said the Duke of Tuscany, John Gaston de Medici, last and unworthy scion of that illustrious family, who was dying without posterity.

"Which is the third child that France and the empire mean to father upon me ?" The King of Sardinia gained only Novara and Tortona, whilst the emperor recovered Milaness.

France renounced all her conquests in Germany; she guaranteed the Pragmatic-Sanction.

Russia evacuated Poland: peace seemed to be firmly established in Europe.

Cardinal Fleury hasted to consolidate it, by removing from power the ambitious and daring politician whose influence he dreaded.