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The Diplomatic Revolution which resulted in a Franco-Austrian rapprochement in the mid-18th century, saw five Habsburg-Bourbon marriages take place. But what if this hadn’t happened – maybe Britain-Hannover stays on the Austrian side or Austria and France make nice, but it doesn’t last (at least not long enough to enable more than one (if that) Habsburg-Bourbon marriage). Would this change much on the European chessboard? Or would the relative paucity of Catholic matches for the Habsburgs and the Bourbons force them into a ramshackle marital alliance?
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