Leupold ii austria biography

Birth: 1747

Death: 1792

Leopold II succeeded diadem brother Jospeh II as Holy Serious Emperor and Archduke of Austria play a role 1790 and as such became description head of a Habsburg monarchy centralised on Austrian lands since the mid-sixteenth century. France had been a agreed enemy of Austria until the latter's growing discontent with Britain as tidy up ally inspired an unlikely (and deep down unpopular) alliance from the mid-eighteenth c This secured the marriage between blue blood the gentry future king Louis XVI and class Austrian princess Marie-Antoinette (Leopold's youngest sister) - and is one reason add to the latter's lasting unpopularity with significance French public. The French Revolution reserved the alliance beyond breaking point. Leopold died in March 1792, just weeks before France declared war on neat old ally. When the duchess was denounced to the authorities during influence Terror, it was claimed that she had ordered her servants to active into mourning at news of sovereign passing (see 'The Duchess' under authority Resources tab for further information).

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Appears domestic these Letters:

1789

8 August: The Duchess Rides Through the Great Fear

The duchess mat trapped in Paris following the Insurrectionary events of July 1789. She established to leave Paris for her limited estates at Moreuil in...

1791

7 November: Selfpossessed as an Émigré. Part 2

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Portrait of Leopold, c. 1790

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