As to Duke Franz, there is a remedy.

The old Duke of Florence, last of the Medici, is about to die childless: let the now Duke of Lorraine, your Imperial Majesty's intended Son-in-law, have Florence instead .-- And so it had to be settled.

'Lorraine?
To Stanislaus, to France ?' exclaimed the poor Kaiser, still more the poor Reich, and poor Duke Franz.

This was the bitterest cut of all; but there was no getting past it.

This too had to be allowed, this item for the Election breakages in Poland.
And so France, after nibbling for several centuries, swallows Lorraine whole.