A Habsburg succession

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Queen Mary Anne, supported by Count Harrach, tried hard to induce her husband to make a will in favour of the Archduke. For some days she seemed to have won her game; the instrument was ready; and nothing was wanting but the signature of the monarch. Nay, it is possible that even the signature had been added, when the adverse party succeeded in bringing about the burning of the will.


WI the Habsburg party won out and the Archduke Charles was designated successor to the Spanish throne?[FONT=Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
 
WI the Habsburg party won out and the Archduke Charles was designated successor to the Spanish throne?

I tried to find this exact piece it surely wouldn't stop the French from going to war. But if Charles is nominated the legal heir by the king it probably could make Louis XIV going to war not for the whole Spanish Empire but for the lands that the Bourbons should receive by the Second Treaty of Partition (Naples and Sicily going to the Dauphin while Lorraine goes to the French crown and the duke of Lorraine receives Milan in exchange).
 
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