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FERDINAND EMPEREUR

Lettre écrite à un jurisconsulte de la ville de... au sujet des dispositions faites par l'Empereur Ferdinand I dans son testament du 1er juin 1543, dans le contrat de mariage de l'archiduchesse Anne sa fille aînée, du 19 juin 1546... pour régler la succession à plusieurs Etats de la maison d'Autriche.

S.n., s.l. 1741, in 4 (21,5x27cm), 22pp., broché.

first edition.
Since the XVIth century, there had always been a man for head of the house of Austria, and the succession had been transmitted from male to male, but the Emperor Charles VI had only daughters. He wanted to leave his inheritance to his eldest daughter, Marie-Thérèse, and regulated his succession by means of a solemn law, called Sanction Pragmatique. This act decided that Marie-Thérèse would succeed her father. To be sure that he was executed, Charles VI had him recognized first by members of his family, then by his subjects from different provinces. Pragmatics then became the basic law of succession for the Austrian monarchy. It established the right of women to succeed and made the territory indivisible, as long as there were descendants of Marie-Thérèse. It is on this act that the existence of the Austrian monarchy is still based today. On the death of Charles VI (1740), Marie-Thérèse was recognized heiress by all the countries of the Austrian monarchy. But the sovereigns of Europe did not allow themselves to be stopped by the treaties they had signed, it was a European war, each working to dismember Austria. The work evokes a bad interpretation of the will of the emperor Ferdinand as for the succession of the house of Austria.
Our copy is presented in original bocage and under cover of vintage marbled paper. The sheets are folded in the upper right margin. The cover has folds and gaps.

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