To give the crown of Spain in these new circumstances to the archduke, as had been the object of the Allies when they began the war, would have been as dangerous to the balance of power as to let Spain pass to Louis's grandson, Philip of Anjou.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
The plans of the Confederates were disarranged by the death of the Emperor, and the accession of his brother, the archduke Charles, to the vacant crown.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
A handful of constitutional reformers-united three years before in a secret society to promote peasant emancipation, the common civil liberties, and stable instead of arbitrary law-gathered a crowd to a public place in the capital, and shouted for "the archduke Constantine and a Constitution."
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae