On the 13th of September, the Grand-duke of Tuscany had been proclaimed emperor at Frankfurt, under the name of Francis I.

The indomitable resolution of the queen his wife had triumphed.

In spite of the checks she suffered in the Low Countries, Maria Theresa still withstood, at all points, the pacific advances of the belligerents.
On the 4th of June, the King of Prussia had gained a great victory at Freilberg.

"I have honored the bill of exchange your Majesty drew on me at Fontenoy," he wrote to Louis XV.

A series of successful fights had opened the road to Saxony.